People v. Hedges

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

People v. Hedges

184 A.D. 901

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York·Decided May 15, 1918·Published·Cited by 1 cases

Opinion

Judgment affirmed, with costs. The defendant paid the principal and withheld the interest incident to it, while the law demanded him to pay. The withholding was not an inadvertence, but an unlawful insistence of ownership. It does not require a demand to convert a rightful possession into a wrongful holding, when a public officer, in breach of the demand which the statute

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Judgment affirmed, with costs. The defendant paid the principal and withheld the interest incident to it, while the law demanded him to pay. The withholding was not an inadvertence, but an unlawful insistence of ownership. It does not require a demand to convert a rightful possession into a wrongful holding, when a public officer, in breach of the demand which the statute

People v. Hedges, 184 A.D. 901 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1918).

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