Case Name: Sol W. Gross, Respondent, v. Wolf Toder, Defendant, Impleaded with Max L. Kane, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1938-12-23
Citations: 255 A.D. 964
Docket Number: 
Parties: Sol W. Gross, Respondent, v. Wolf Toder, Defendant, Impleaded with Max L. Kane, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 255
Pages: 964–965

Head Matter:
(December 23, 1938.)
Sol W. Gross, Respondent, v. Wolf Toder, Defendant, Impleaded with Max L. Kane, Appellant.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
There was no proof here that appellant has exercised dominion over the property of plaintiff's assignor in defiance of his rights. Nor was there any satisfactory evidence to establish that appellant ever had exclusive possession, custody or control of the property. " Conversion, however we define it, involves the element of an unauthorized assumption of dominion over the property of another." (Mutual Trust Co. v. Merchants Nat. Bank, 236 N. Y. 478, 486. See, also, Industrial & General Trust v. Tod, 170 id. 233, 245; Salt Springs National Bank v. Wheeler, 48 id. 492, 495; White v. Bronson, 120 Misc. 73, 74 [Lehman, J.].) A judgment for plaintiff in the circumstances of this ease was improper. The judgment, in so far as it is against the defendant Max L. Kane, should be reversed, with costs, and the complaint, as to said defendant, dismissed, with costs to the appellant.
Present — Martin, P. J., Glennon, Dore, Cohn and Callahan, JJ.
Judgment, in so far as it is against the defendant Max L. Kane, unanimously reversed, with costs to the appellant, and the complaint dismissed as to said defendant, with costs.