Keystone Service, Inc. v. Smith

Lewis, J.,

This is an action for the recovery by the plaintiff of its Hupmobile automobile, which the sheriff found in the possession of the defendant, a garage keeper. The declaration is in the usual form, averring, in substance, the ownership by the plaintiff of the automobile in question and the detention thereof by the defendant. The amended affidavit of defense pleads a seizure of the automobile by “some of the members of the police force” of the City of Philadelphia, acting under the alleged authority of a city ordinance “duly passed by the council of said city and approved by the mayor *9o…