Mills v. First State Pawners Society
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. H. Sterling Pomeroy, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch AppelHte Court at the October term, 1914.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Barnes
delivered the opinion of the court.
Plaintiff in error brought an action in replevin and trover to recover articles of jewelry, or their value, from defendant in error, to which they were pledged for loans obtained by plaintiff’s intestate, one Pfeil. We shall refer to the parties as plaintiff and defendant respectively. Judgment was for defendant, and the only question involved is whether plaintiff had a cause of action.
The defendant is a corporation organized under the Pawners’ Societies Act (Hurd’s R. S. 1913, ch. 32, p. 618), section 3 of which provides that “in…
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