Strider v. Calvert Fire Insurance

Calvert Fire Insurance Company, by its attorney and agent, filed an affidavit for, and obtained the issuance of, a writ of replevin for the seizure of a certain automobile, as therein described. In due time, it filed its declaration in the circuit court, alleging that it was the .owner and entitled to the immediate possession of the automobile which was in the hands of H. C. Strider, and that he unlawfully detained the same and refused to turn it over to the owner.

Strider filed a plea of not guilty. In addition he filed a counterclaim in which he alleged that, when he came into office as…