Leibovit v. Garfunkel

This is an action in replevin brought by Leibovit against Garfunkel. There was a verdict for Garfunkel rendered June 17, 1913. Within four days thereafter a motion for a new trial was filed and presented to the presiding judge, Hon. L. W. Bethel, who fixed the date for the hearing thereon for June 23, 1913. On the day before that date, Judge Bethel was stricken with paraly*464sis, from which, he never recovered. On February 10,1914, Judge James W. Perkins of the Seventh Circuit, was assigned by the Governor to preside over the Circuit Court for Monroe County, in lieu of Judge Bethel, who was…