Case Name: Morris Florea, Appellant, v. Leon C. Shultz and Another, Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1926-06-08
Citations: 127 Misc. 420
Docket Number: 
Parties: Morris Florea, Appellant, v. Leon C. Shultz and Another, Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 127
Pages: 420–421

Head Matter:
Morris Florea, Appellant, v. Leon C. Shultz and Another, Respondents.
Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department,
June 8, 1926.
Harry Wylan, for the appellant.
Abraham Shabshelowiiz, for the respondents.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Plaintiff as city marshal sued for conversion on property in his custody and possession by virtue of a levy made pursuant to a warrant of attachment. It is well settled that a sheriff may maintain an action of conversion with respect to property in his possession as a result of a lawful levy. (Dickinson v. Oliver, 112 App. Div. 806; Ansonia, etc., v. Babbitt, 74 N. Y. 395.) Sections 45, 47 and 151 of the Municipal Court Code would appear to place city marshals on a parity with sheriffs in that regard. Moreover, no reason suggests itself for differentiation between a marshal and a sheriff in a situation of this character.
Judgment reversed and a new trial ordered, with thirty dollars costs to appellant to abide the event.
All concur; present, Delehanty, Lydon and Levy, JJ.