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127 A.D. 352

Gurwitz v. Weir

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1908-06-29

Appeal by the defendant, Levi C. Weir, as president, etc., from a judgment of the Municipal Court of the city of Hew York in favor of the plaintiff.

Relies on Sweet v. . Barney

Decided 1908-06-29

Gaynor, J.:

¶1The plaintiff has recovered a judgment for $167.50 for goods shipped by him by the defendant express company and lost by it. It is enough that the plaintiff did not own the goods. . He received them by express for inspection and to be returned to the sender within five days if they did not suit him, and he returned them by the defendant.. The person to bring the suit is the owner (Sweet v. Barney, 23 N. Y. 335; Krulder v. Ellison, 47 id. 36).

¶2The judgment must be reversed.

¶3Woodward, Jenks, Hooker and Rich, JJ., concurred.

¶4Judgment and order of the Municipal Court reversed and new trial ordered; costs to abide the event.

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