New York Supreme Court February 8, 1892 (J. M. Horton Ice-Cream Co. v. Merritt)

Barnard, P. J.

The complaint avers a conversion of the plaintiff’s property, being about 250 tons of ice, of the value of $1,250* by the defendants. The taking of the ice by the defendant Mould is proven, and that the taking was by virtue of a sale by the defendant Merritt to him of the ice, and an order to Mould by Merritt to take possession. The plaintiff’s title is fully proven.