Wilkes v. Holmes
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action of replevin in the district court for Mille Lacs county to recover possession of an automobile or $500, the value thereof, and $100 damages for its detention. The case was tried before Parsons,, L, and a jury which returned a verdict in favor of plaintiffs and fixed the value of the property at $1,500. From an order denying-defendant’s motion for a new trial, he appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHolt, J.
Plaintiffs brought this action to recover possession of an automobile which they claimed to own. Defendant answered that he was the owner, having obtained it from plaintiffs under a contract by which he traded 60 shares of stock in a creamery corporation for the car. Plaintiffs had a verdict, and defendant appeals from the-order denying a new trial.
The record discloses this situation: Plaintiffs, father and son, lived at Milaca, and, at the time of this transaction, were in the: automobile business selling and trading cars. A. C. Wilkes, the father, had previously been associated with one…
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