International Textbook Co. v. Pratt Mercantile & Publishing Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Teller.

The plaintiff in error, the owner of the International Correspondence School, was plaintiff below in an action in replevin to recover from defendant in error certain books, which the record shows had been loaned by plaintiff to various students of the correspondence school'which it conducts.

The defendant claimed the books by purchase from persons having possession of them. It appears that plaintiff loaned the books to'the students, under a contract by which it was agreed, among other things, that no person not a holder of one of plaintiff’s scholarships should…