Pyle v. Springfield Marine Bank

This is a replevin action to recover possession of a United States Treasury bearer bond of the face value of $1000 discovered by plaintiffs in defendant bank’s safe deposit vault room. The circuit court’s judgment awarded the custody of the bond to the plaintiffs, and this appeal follows.

The complaint charges that on October 20,1941, the plaintiffs entered the safety vault compartment of defendant bank, obtained their safety deposit box, proceeded to a room for the purpose of examination of the contents of the box, and sometime thereafter found the bond in question on the floor; that they…