Meeker v. Chicago Cast Steel Co.

This was case, in the circuit court of Cook county, in trover for four hundred and eleven cast steel ingots, brought by the Chicago Cast Steel Company, plaintiff, and against Arthur B. Meeker and William L. Brown, defendants. There was a trial by jury, on the plea of not guilty and of nul tiel corporation, which resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff, and the damages assessed at thirty-two hundred dollars. A motion for a new trial was denied, and judgment rendered on the verdict, to reverse which the defendants appeal.

Appellants make, as their principal point, the absence of legal and…