Robinson v. Brems

This was an action of replevin, brought by appellants, to obtain possession of certain goods distrained for rent by appellees as the property of Isaac S. Robinson and Abraham Robinson, the husbands of appellants.

The only question in the case is whether the title to the property was in appellants or their husbands. It is claimed the court erred in the instructions to the jury, and that the verdict of the jury was clearly against the evidence.

At the time of the great fire in Chicago, in the fall of 1871, the husbands of appellants, who were brothers, were, and for several years had been,…