Powell v. Fink

ANDERSON, Judge.

This is an action in replevin. Suit was ■originally filed in the Magistrate Court. 'The petition was conventional in form and sought recovery of certain specific personal property. Among the items listed was “one Meister spinet piano.” There was a finding .and judgment in the Magistrate Court in favor of the defendant. Plaintiff appealed to the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis. In the Circuit Court plaintiff abandoned her claim as to all items except the piano.

During the trial in the Circuit Court it developed that the piano in question was a “Story and Clark spinet”…