Manning, Bowman Co. v. . Keenan
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from, judgment of the General Term of the Supreme court, in the first judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon a verdict affirming an order denying a motion for a new trial. (Reported below, 9 Hun, 686.) This action was brought by plaintiff, a manufacturing corporation, against defendants who were coroners of the city and county of Hew York, for the alleged conversion of a quantity of silverware.
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Appeal from, judgment of the General Term of the Supreme court, in the first judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon a verdict affirming an order denying a motion for a new trial. (Reported below, 9 Hun, 686.) This action was brought by plaintiff, a manufacturing corporation, against defendants who were coroners of the city and county of Hew York, for the alleged conversion of a quantity of silverware. Plaintiff's evidence tended to show the following facts : The goods in question were sold conditionally to one Olney, in May, 1869, who proposed to open a…
1Opinion of the CourtFolger, J.
The jury were charged with the question of fact, whether the plaintiffs had such an interest in the property in question in the first instance as would maintain an action for an interference with it. They were told that to entitle the plaintiffs to recover in this action at all, it must be fomid that they were the owners of the property, and had never ceased to be the owners of it; or, that although it had gone into Olney’s actual possession at one time, and he had been allowed to treat with it, to keep it, to sell portions of it in order to raise money out of it to pay to the plaintiffs, it…
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