Evers-Jordan Furniture Co. v. Hartzog

GARDNER, Justicq.

The action is in trespass to realty, with judgment for plaintiff.

Plaintiff occupied as a tenant a three-room house in the country, in which was a bedstead and springs purchased by him from defendant on the installment plan of weekly payments of one dollar and at times smaller sums. The purchase price of this personalty was sixteen dollars) and there remained due about one dollar and twenty-five cents at the time of the alleged trespass, as to which plaintiff was in default.

Defendant’s theory was that the title was not to pass until the full sum was paid. This plaintiff…