What is the test for possession of a Chattel and what is its value?
"New York", United States of America
The following excerpt is from Finn v. Anderson, 101 N.Y.S.3d 825, 64 Misc.3d 273 (N.Y. City Ct. 2019):
that can be used, handled, or transported, as horses, carriages, furniture, machinery, tools, and numberless objects to be seen about us in everyday life, the value of which is in the possession of the thing itself." Niles v. Mathusa, 162 N.Y. 546, 57 N.E. 184 (1900) ; see also 23 NY Jur Conversion, and Action for Recovery of Chattel 89.
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