Metropolitan National Bank v. Hutchinson Realty Co.

This is an action to recover for the use and conversion of apartment house furniture. The cause was tried to the court sitting without a jury, and resulted in a judgment dismissing the action, from which judgment the plaintiff appeals.

' The respondent, Hutchinson Realty Company, leased the Van Siclen Apartment House January 22, 1924, to Magnus Edgren for a five-year period. The furniture placed in the building was owned by the lessee Edgren who, to secure the payment of the rentals reserved in the lease, executed to respondent realty company a chattel mortgage upon the furniture. In March,…