Case ID: ny-sup-ct_9/html/0112-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ASA W. WICKES, Respondent, v. THE ADIRONDACK COMPANY, Appellant.
    
      Possession — evidence of ownwship—B. B. bonds negotiable
    
    Possession of'personal property is'presumptive evidence of ownership; and this rule applies to all personal property, and to negotiable paper.
    
    Railroad bonds are negotiable; and will pass by delivery.
    
    Appeal from a judgment entered on the report of a referee in favor of the plaintiff in an action brought to recover the interest on two bonds of $1,000, payable to Thomas C. Durant or bearer, executed by the defendant.
    
      A. Pond, for the appellant.
    
      Irving Browne, for the respondent.
    
      
      1 Greenl. Ev., §34; Fish v. Skut, 21 Barb., 334; James v. Chalmers, 6 N.Y., 209.
    
    
      
      Conn. Mut. L. Ins. Co. v. C. O. & C. R. R. Co., 41 Barb., 9, 22.
    
   Opinion by Miller, P. J.

Present—Miller, P. J., Bockes and Boardman, JJ.

Judgment affirmed, with costs.