Soulios v. Mills Novelty Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. CtiiEE Justice Boni-iam.

This is an action to recover damages, actual and punitive, for an alleged breaking and entering of the premises of the plaintiff by the agent of the defendant, and removing therefrom a part of the plaintiff’s property, and of damaging, ransacking, and destroying other of plaintiff’s property.

The defense was a general denial, and the pleading of a conditional sales contract or chattel mortgage, under which defendant had sold to plaintiff an ice cream freezer; that a title retention contract was given to secure to defendant…