Kreider v. Fanning

deliveeed the opinion of the Coubt.

A plaintiff in trover must recover upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of the title of his adversary. He must not only show a tortious conversion of the property by defendant, but that at the time of such conversion he had the right of property, either general or special, in the chattels converted, and also the possession or the right to the immediate possession thereof. Union Stock Yard Co. v. Mallory, etc., Co., 157 Ill. 554; Frink v. Pratt, 130 Ill. 327; 1 Chitty’s Pl. 149. The only title of appellee to this corn was by virtue of…