Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. v. Commercial Bank

By the Court,

Paine, J.

This action was brought by the respondent against the appellant, to recover possession of fifteen thousand rail road chairs, being the irons used to fasten down the rails. The complaint avers that they were the property of the plaintiff, and that the defendant unjustly detained them, &c. The answer contained a general denial, and averred property in the defendant.

It appears that the Loan and Trust Company held the first mortgages upon the eastern and western divisions of the Racine and Mississippi Rail Road Company; the eastern comprising that part of the road within the…