
    Samuel Diener et al., Respondents, v. Adolph Schwab, Appellant.
    (Supreme Court, Appellate Term,
    May, 1899.)
    Replevin — Title in a stranger, connected with the defendant. -
    Where the undisputed evidence of the defendant. in an action of replevin tends to show property in a.stranger and' connects the defendant himself with the title, a judgment for the plaintiff cannot ' .be sustained. - ■ 1.
    Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Municipal Court, first district, borough of Manhattan, rendered in favor- of the plaintiffs. , ''
    August P. Wagener,. for appellant.
    Louis Levy, for respondents.
   MacLean, J.

The action was for wrongful detention of personal property, and the answer a general denial.

The plaintiffs brought replexdn fqr goods which-they had sold and 'delivered"to -ene'Mandel, just previous to Mandel’s failure. .The goods were found in the "possession of .the defendant* who claimed to have bought them acting for another person, "one Eetterer, who testified that he had purchased and paid value for the goods,"in which statement hq was corroborated by the testimony of 'the defendant’s counsel apd clerk. This evidence* tending to show property" in a stranger and connecting the defendant himself therewith, béing in nowise contradicted or discredited, requires the reversal of the judgment. Gerber v. Monie, 56 Barb. 652; Stowell v. Otis, 71 N. Y. 36.

Freedman, P. J., concurs; Leventritt, J., concurs 'in result.

Judgment reversed and new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide event.  