Studebaker Sales Co. v. Nehaus

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

This appeal is by the intervening defendant, a landlord, from a judgment in an action of replevin in favor of the plaintiff therein, the alleged owner of an automobile upon which a distress for rent in arrear had been levied by appellant. The landlord stored the car in the garage of Nehaus, the original defendant in the present action; the claimant, Studebaker Sales Company, issued a writ of replevin for it, under which the sheriff served Nehaus and, in the absence of a counter bond, delivered the car to the claimant; upon his petition, the landlord was permitted to…