Laing v. Day

There were changes in the parties to this suit, made after it was brought; but as the case stood at the time of the trial, it was an action of replevin in which Lavinia E. Day was the plaintiff, and Cuthbert W. Laing was the defendant. The matter in controversy was the right of property in a certain concert grand piano of the Knabe make, with the stool and cover. There was a plea putting in issue plaintiff’s right of property, and on that issue alone the case was tried by a jury, whose verdict found the property in plaintiff. Defendant asked for a new trial, and on its beino- overruled and…