MacCallum-Donahoe Finance Co. v. Leiendecker
MacCallum-Donahoe Finance Co. v. Leiendecker
Opinion of the Court
This is an action in replevin, involving a motor truck, that was decided by the trial court in favor of the plaintiff. The defendant, Leiendecker, has appealed.
One Sprague, while engaged in business in the name of the Signal Motor Trucking Company, had the truck in his stock for sale. The appellant, Leiendecker, by the investment of money and his personal attention to the business, became actively engaged as a partner with Sprague. Later he withdrew from the partnership, leaving Sprague entitled to, and having the possession and control of, the truck. Thereafter the Signal Motor Trucking Company went out of business, at which time the truck was delivered into the possession of the respondent, MacCallum-Donahoe Finance Company, as the owner, by reason of a financial arrange
“That the plaintiff is entitled to the possession of that certain 1920 Signal one and one-half ton motor truck, Style C-4 Serial No. H-1296, Engine No. 3635.
“That the defendant, Otto Leiendecker, at the commencement of this action was in the wrongful possession of said truck, and after demand for such possession had been made of the defendant by the plaintiff said defendant wrongfully and unlawfully faffed and refused to deliver possession of said truck to the plaintiff.”
No exceptions to the findings were taken or filed.
Such being the facts and the record in the case, we conclude the judgment must be and it is affirmed.
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