Consolidated National Bank v. Cunningham

In this action the Consolidated National Bank of Tucson seeks to recover from C. J. Cunningham the possession of a 1914 model Cadillac automobile or its value. It obtained possession of the car by filing the required affidavit and bond, but the jury by its verdict said that the defendant, Cunningham, was its owner and entitled to its possession, and that its value at the time of the commencement of the action was $1,000, and in pursuance of the right conferred by paragraph 1614, Civil Code of 1913, he elected to take its value instead of the car itself, whereupon judgment was entered in his…