Harris-Intertype Corp. v. Donley Bindery Co.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment entered in the Circuit Court of St. Clair County in favor of plaintiff-appellee, Harris-Intertype Corporation, for possession of a paper cutter. A verified complaint brought under section 4 of “An Act to revise the law in relation to replevin” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 119, par. 4) [hereinafter cited as the Replevin Act] alleged only that plaintiff was the owner of the paper cutter, valued at $13,000, and that the cutter was wrongfully detained by the defendant, and prayed for return of the property or judgment for its value. From an amended…