American Type Founders Co. v. Metropolitan Credit & Discount Corp.

On April 11, 1932, plaintiff commenced a 4th class action in replevin to recover the possession of certain printers’ machines, equipment and supplies of the stated value of $500, which it was alleged defendant had wrongfully taken and wrongfully detained. When the bailiff under the writ was about to take the property and deliver it to plaintiff, defendant, on April 27, 1932, gave a forthcoming bond under the statute in the sum of $1,000. Upon a trial without a jury on September 30, 1932, the court found that “the right to the possession of the property replevied is in plaintiff” and assessed…