National Bond & Investment Co. v. Zakos

The National Bond and Investment Company (not inc.), a copartnership consisting of Melville N. Rothschild and John L. Little, filed a statement of claim in a fourth-class tort case in the municipal court of Chicago against' Paul Zakos and G-eorge C. King, claiming that defendants had converted a Ford touring car to their own use upon which the plaintiffs had a valid chattel mortgage. There was a trial before the court without a jury and a finding in favor of plaintiffs. The damages were fixed at the amount unpaid under the chattel mortgage, viz.: $452.52. Judgment was entered on the finding…