Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Roeder
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Edmund K. Jarecki, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1919.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Matchett
delivered the opinion of the court.
The plaintiff below brought suit in replevin to recover posession of one oak player piano, No. 23,624. The affidavit alleged that this piano player' was wrongfully taken and held by the defendants John Boeder and J. Segal. The piano player was taken from the possession of appellant Segal on the writ, and turned over to the plaintiff.
Boeder was served but did not appear or defend. The case was tried by the court without a jury, and the court found the right of possession in the plaintiff, and damag-es for detention at the sum of…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Hunt v. WymanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
- Gilbert v. National Cash Register Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1898
- Schwamb Lumber Co. v. SchaarAppellate Court of Illinois · 1901
- Taylor v. WelshAppellate Court of Illinois · 1907
- Ohio & Mississippi Railway v. NoeIllinois Supreme Court · 1875
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