People v. Fernow

In February, 1918, John Fernow, Jr., a corporation, had two barns in the rear of 2906 and 2908 Michigan avenue, Chicago, rented from month to month under a verbal lease, for the storage of automobiles, and had in its possession in the barns ten Ford automobiles. The plaintiff in error, vice-president and general manager of the corporation, took the motors, upon which there were serial numbers of the manufacturer, together with dies for changing the numbers, to an automobile repair shop and hired and paid a repairman to file off the original numbers and put on new ones. The steel filings were…