Case Name: Samuel Kindy v. Irwin Green and another
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1875-06-18
Citations: 32 Mich. 310
Docket Number: 
Parties: Samuel Kindy v. Irwin Green and another.
Judges: 
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 32
Pages: 310–311

Head Matter:
Samuel Kindy v. Irwin Green and another.
Replevin: Undivided interest: Tenants in common. Replevin 'will not lie for an undivided interest in a chattel •where the execution of the writ will operate to deprive a co-tenant whose title is not disputed of his right of possession.
Heard and decided June 18.
Error to Kalamazoo Circuit.
This was an action of replevin, brought by Green and McIntyre against Kindy, for an undivided one-half of a portable saw-mill, which interest they claimed to have purchased of him, the other undivided interest belonging to a third party. The cansé was tried by a jury and verdict rendered for the plaintiffs. The defendant moved in arrest of judgment, on the ground that replevin would not lie for an undivided interest in property in its nature indivisible, and his-motion having been denied and judgment rendered for the plaintiffs for the value of the property, assessed at one thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents, he brought error.
O. T. Tidhill, for plaintiff in error, was stopped by the court.
No counsel appeared for defendants in error.

Opinion:
The Oouet
held that replevin would not lie for an undivided interest in a chattel where the execution of the writ will operate to deprive a co-tenant whose title is undisputed of his right of possession.
Judgment reversed, with costs of both courts.