Soviero v. Westcott Express Co.
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff in the City Court of the city of New York and also from an order denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial.
1Opinion of the CourtScott, J.
The plaintiff’s assignor delivered to defendant at the Barge' Office in the city of New York, the checks for three trunks which had just been brought from Europe by the assignor’s wife. Defendant’s agent asked where the trunks were to go and was given an address in Trenton, N. J. He thereupon gave the assignor a receipt containing the date, and the numbers of the checks, and otherwise reading as follows: “Received articles numbered as in the margin *597hereof, subject to the conditions printed on the back of this receipt to be delivered to
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2Cases cited4 opinions
- Jennings v. Grand Trunk RailwayNew York Court of Appeals · 1891
- Root v. . the Great Western R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1871
- Wright v. BoughtonNew York Supreme Court · 1856
- Marmonstein v. Pennsylvania RailroadNew York Court of Common Pleas · 1895
3Cited by1 opinion
- Noel v. Westcott Express Co.Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1916