Handlan-Buck Manufacturing Co. v. Waterloo Drop Forge Co.

This action at law is in replevin for the recovery of the possession of a large lot of machinery and tools of which, plaintiff claims to be the absolute and unqualified owner. There was an answer by the defendant, O. W. Mullan, denying the alleged ownership by the plaintiff and setting up a qualified title in himself and right to the possession of the property under a trust deed made to him by the Waterloo Drop Forge Company to secure payment of their debts, and stating that he took said title without notice of any right or claim thereto on the part of plaintiff. Thereafter, the persons named…