Singer Sewing Machine Co. v. Holcomb
Supreme Court of Iowa
Apjp&al from Marshall District Goxort. AotioN of replevin for a sewing machine, of which plaintiff claims to be the owner.
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Apjp&al from Marshall District Goxort. AotioN of replevin for a sewing machine, of which plaintiff claims to be the owner. Defendant alleges that L. and N. H. Beard were the owners of said machine by purchase from plaintiff, and that on the 30th day of October, 1872, they purchased a stove and furniture of defendant for $32.25, upon which there is now due $27.25, and that they transferred said machine to defendant as a security for the indebtedness; and that the machine so remained in defendant’s possession until it was taken by plaintiff under the writ of replevin. The cause was tried by the…
1Opinion of the CourtDay, J.
Upon the trial the following instrument was admitted in evidence.
“ This agreement, made this sixteenth day of August, 1872, between the Singer Manufacturing Company, of the first part, and-, of Marshalltown, county of Marshall, State of Iowa, of the second part, witnesseth: That the party of the first part, in consideration of the agreements hereinafter mentioned, to be kept and performed by the party of the *34second part, let and rented to the party of the second part one Singer Sewing Machine, being No. 537,929, for and during the term of ten months from the day and date hereof.
And the said…
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