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Burghen v. Purdy

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Department
Mar 1, 1898
27 App. Div. 460 (N.Y. App. Div. 1898)

Opinion

March Term, 1898.

F.H. Callan and D.B. Tuttle, for the appellant.

Eugene M. Bartlett, for the respondents.



We think the evidence was sufficient to require the court to submit to the jury the question whether the defendants were acting in concert in seizing the property of the plaintiff and removing the same from his rooms. The evidence tended strongly to indicate a concert of action between the two defendants, and we think sufficient evidence was given to warrant the jury in finding that the acts of Dulmage were authorized by the defendant Purdy, and that the defendant Purdy subsequently, after learning of the acts of the defendant Dulmage, approved and ratified the same.

When the question was raised as to his residence there was a conflict of evidence sufficient to make a question of fact for the jury to determine whether or not he resided in the county of Erie at the time of the commencement of the action.

We think the exceptions present error, and that the nonsuit should be set aside.

All concurred.

Judgment and order reversed and a new trial ordered, with costs to the appellant to abide the event.


Summaries of

Burghen v. Purdy

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Department
Mar 1, 1898
27 App. Div. 460 (N.Y. App. Div. 1898)
Case details for

Burghen v. Purdy

Case Details

Full title:WILLIAM J. BURGHEN, Appellant, v . CHARLES G. PURDY and THOMAS DULMAGE…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Department

Date published: Mar 1, 1898

Citations

27 App. Div. 460 (N.Y. App. Div. 1898)
50 N.Y.S. 546

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