Beatty v. Federal Fireproof Storage Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice McSurely

delivered the opinion of the court.

' Plaintiff appeals from an adverse judgment in a replevin suit tried by the court in which right to the property was found in the intervener. The replevin writ alleged that the defendant storage company wrongfully detained from plaintiff 30 oil paintings. Defendant answered that it was a licensed public warehouse; that J. Leger & Son Company had placed in storage with it 100 oil -paintings and other goods and chattels; that it had been served with summons in four separate attachment suits and also by a distress warrant issued…