Midwestern Machinery Co. v. Parsons

STONE, Judge.

This is a court-tried replevin action, in which plaintiff Midwestern Machinery Company, a Minnesota corporation (hereinafter called Midwestern), appeals from an adverse judgment that defendant G. H. Parsons retain possession of a 24" Bullard vertical turret lathe, Serial No. 15649, found to have been of the value of $2,000 at the time of trial.

In February 1962, Parsons leased a building in Carthage, Missouri, to Harrel Owens and financed him in the establishment of a machine shop. Pete Page, an independent machine tool dealer at Joplin, took Owens to Midwestern, a machine tool…