Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1915 — JUDY REPLEVIN SUIT WON BY DEFENDANT [ARTICLE]

JUDY REPLEVIN SUIT WON BY DEFENDANT

Jury Out All Night But Finally Brought in Verdict for H. B. Brown, of Kniman. l An action in replevin brought by John F. Judy against H. B. Brown, postmaster and merchant at Kniman, was decided in favor of the defendant by the jury, which went out at about noon Friday and did not arrive at a decision until this Saturday morning at about 10 o’clock. Mr. Brown last year bought an automobile through Joseph Smith, as the agent of Judy. The car was very much second hand. It was Whiting by name but that seems to have been about the only white thing about it. The car was sold for $340 and Mr. Brown gave a note for it and was to make payments. He had paid SSO when he concluded that he had already paid all or more than the car was worth and he had also put $lB into the car in the way of repairs and the stubborn critter was yawning for more repairs and refused to go any place except on the bum. He offered to turn the car back to Judy for what he owed provided the $lB was returned to him, losing the SSO he had paid on it, but this did not suit Judy and finally when Mr. Brown had experimented with the car by practically making a new car of it he decided that its worth consisted of the repairs and not of the original machine. The jury also seems to have taken this view and decided in Mr. Brown’s fayor on the replevin action. It will now be possible for Judy to sue on the note. It is claimed that since the trial it has been learned that the car sold to Mr. Brown for $340 had formerly been the property of Dr. Solt, of San Pierre, who after driving the life out of it had sold it for $25 and that it had been kicked about in several other hands before finally sold to Mr. Brown.