Gleason v. Morrison
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal by defendants from an affirmance by the City Court of a judgment of the Trial Term in favor of plaintiff, entered upon the verdict of a jury for $200 damages, in an action for the conversion of a steam pump.
1Opinion of the CourtDaly, P. J.
The defendants hired from the plaintiff, in 1885, a steam pump and engine at a monthly rent. In 1886 the engine was destroyed, and defendants retained the pump on hire. In 1889 the plaintiff recovered judgment against the defendants for the value of the use of the pump; and thereafter it was agreed that plaintiff should take back the pump which was then on defendants' premises, at the foot of East Seventeenth street, in this city, plain*322tiff agreeing to send and get it. Erom the testimony of plaintiff it appeared that the original agreement, after the settlement of the first suit, was that the…
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