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4 E.D. Smith 178

Duffy v. Thompson

New York Court of Common Pleas

Decided March 15, 1855

New York Court of Common Pleas · decided 1855-03-15

This action was prosecuted to recover the value of a trunk and its contents, being the personal baggage of the plaintiff’s assignor, lost on a passage from Liverpool to New York, in the steamer “ Star of the West.” The plaintiff recovered a judgment against the defendant, Thompson, only, the evidence proving him to have been the owner of the ship. ■ The case now came up on his appeal.

Decided 1855-03-15

Daly, J.

¶1That the cause of action was not assignable was not made one of the grounds of appeal. The objection was not taken upon the trial, or included in the notice of appeal, and cannot now be taken advantage of.

¶2Ho notice of the examination of the assignor was necessary. This we have repeatedly held.

¶3The plaintiff proved that the defendant, Thompson, admitted that he was the owner of the vessel. This was sufficient to support a recovery against him. Judgment should have been rendered for the defendant, Mason, with costs.

¶4The fourteen yards of fine linen were cut up into shut patterns for the assignor, Duffy’s, use. It was, consequently, part of his wearing apparel, and might be recovered for as baggage.

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