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Black & Boyd Manufacturing Co. v. Grand & First Street Corp.

240 A.D. 766 Court N.Y. App. Div. English

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Black and Boyd Manufacturing Company, Inc., Appellant, v. Grand and First Street Corporation, Respondent.

Order setting aside verdict and granting a new trial unanimously affirmed, with costs. The action is plainly one for conversion, and the rule of damages is well settled in such a case. The decision of tMs court in American Stove Company v. Weisberg-Goldman Corp. ( 238 App. Div. 788 , decided February 10, 1933) awarded damages in a similar case on the basis of the value of the converted chattels at the time of the conversion. Present — Lazansky, P. J., Kapper, Hagarty, Carswell and Tompkins, JJ.