Schwab v. Oatman — 198 N.Y. 545

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Samuel M. Schwab, Jr., et al., Copartners, under the Firm Name of S. M. Schwab, Jr., & Co., Respondents, v. Frederic A. Oatman et al., Doing Business as the Mercantile Warehouse Company, Appellants.

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Schwab v. Oatman, 129 App. Div. 274 , reversed.

(Argued March 2, 1910;

decided March 22, 1910.)

Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered ecember 26,1908, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiffs ntered upon a decision of the court at a Trial Term, a jury laving been waived, in an action of replevin.

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John P. Elder and Edward S. Clinch for appellants.

Frederick F. Neuman for respondents.

Judgment reversed, new trial granted, costs to abide event, on dissenting opinion of McLaughlin, J., below.

Concur: Cullen, Ch. J., Gray, Edward T. Bartlett, Werner and Willard Bartlett, JJ. Dissenting: Iliscomt, J. Absent: Chase, J.