Lucas v. Gansler

This action was replevin by plaintiff in error, J. Gray Lucas, in the superior court of Cook county, for the recovery of an automobile from defendants in error, Lee Gansler, William Jacobs and Frank Shapiro. The declaration was in three counts, the first charging the defendants with taking and subsequent detention, the second, detention only, and the third was a count in trover. To the declaration Jacobs pleaded that he was not guilty of the grievances laid to his charge in either of the counts. He filed a fourth plea averring property in himself and not in plaintiff. Subsequently the suit…