Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York December 15, 1898 (Ayvard v. Powers)

Gildersleeve, J.

The action is brought to recover $70 for the use by the defendants, for fourteen months, of a paper-cutting machine, owned by plaintiff. ■ Upon a very sharp conflict of evidence, the justice decided that the defendants had hired this machine from plaintiff for fourteen months, and he fixed the value of such use at $28.