Case Name: Hattie V. Samberg, Plaintiff in Error, v. Sophia Kelly, Defendant in Error
Court: Illinois Appellate Court
Jurisdiction: Illinois
Decision Date: 1911-10-05
Citations: 163 Ill. App. 395
Docket Number: Gen. No. 15,817
Parties: Hattie V. Samberg, Plaintiff in Error, v. Sophia Kelly, Defendant in Error.
Judges: 
Reporter: Illinois Appellate Court Reports
Volume: 163
Pages: 395–395

Head Matter:
Hattie V. Samberg, Plaintiff in Error, v. Sophia Kelly, Defendant in Error.
Gen. No. 15,817.
Liens—when not established. Held, under the evidence, that the lien claimed in the action of replevin reviewed was not established.
Replevin. Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John H. Hume, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1909.
Affirmed.
Opinion filed October 5, 1911.
Charles J. O ’Connor, for plaintiff in error.
William H. A. Rust, for defendant in error.

Opinion:
Mr. Presiding Justice Brown
delivered the opinion of the court.
This suit in replevin for certain household goods was decided by the Municipal Court in favor of the defendant below, who is therefore defendant in error here. A writ of retorno habendo was ordered and a judgment for costs entered in favor of the defendant against the plaintiff.
The Municipal Court was right in its judgment. The suit was based on a supposed lien given to the plaintiff or a conditional sale by her. Neither was, in our opinion, proved. It would be a dangerous precedent to hold that such a conversation as was sworn to by the witness Brockhyser gave such a lien or made a sale absolute on its face and evidenced in writing, a conditional one.
The plaintiff moreover affirmed the sale as an abso«lute one by her suit in assumpsit for the purchase price.
The cook stove was only to be returned in exchange for the one mentioned in the bill of sale.
The judgment of the Municipal Court is affirmed.
Affirmed.