Case ID: nys_133/html/0421-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

BRACHFELD v. HARLEM TERMINAL STORAGE & WAREHOUSE CO. et al.
    (Supreme Court, Appellate Term.
    February 8, 1912.)
    Replevin (§ 102)—Judgment—Separate Disposition of Chattels.
    Judgment in replevin between separated husband and wife for household goods stored by her may award some chattels to one and some to another.
    [Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Replevin, Cent. Dig. § 391; Dec; Dig. § 102.*]
    Appeal from Municipal Court, Borough of Manhattan, First District.
    Replevin by Max Brachfeld against the Harlem Terminal Storage & Warehouse Company and another. From the judgment, plaintiff appeals.
    Reversed, and new trial ordered.
    Argued January term, 1912, before SEABURY, GERARD,- and HOTCHKISS, JJ.
    Abr. A. Silberberg, for appellant.
    Herman G. Rabinowitz, for respondent Gussie Brachfeld.
    
      
      For other cases see same topic & § number in Dec. & Am. Digs. 1907 to date, & Rep’r Indexes
    
   GERARD, J.

Plaintiff is the husband of defendant, Gussie Brachfeld. They quarreled and separated. The wife stored the furniture of their home with the defendant warehouse company. Plaintiff sued that company in replevin, and- the wife was thereafter made a party defendant. The judgment appealed from awards all the chattels to the wife. I regret that this judgment must be reversed, because there is absolutely no proof, even in general terms, as to the wife’s ownership of several of the chattels, such as the parlor set. The judgment may award some chattels to one party and some to another.

Judgment reversed and new trial ordered, with costs to abide the event. All concur.