Hewitt v. General Electric Co.

This was an action of replevin, brought by the General Electric Company on the 15th day of August, 1894, against William B. Hewitt and the Davies Coal Company, to recover the following property: One long wall under-cutter, for mining coal; twenty-four 16 C. P. incandescent lamps; two thousand feet of weather-proof wire; six hundred feet of lead-covered cable; one switch-board; one lot of station instruments; one dynamo of 20,000 Watt capacity. To the declaration Hewitt pleaded, first, non detinet; second, non cepit; third, property in the defendant; fourth and fifth, property of the Davies…