Taylor

In this action judgment was rendered in favor of plaintiff Verne W. Taylor for the possession of an automobile, or for the sum of $1,000, the value thereof, in the event possession could not be had, and for the further sum of $400 damages against the defendant J. H. Bernheim, for the wrongful detention of said automobile. The defendant Bernheim has appealed.

There are two persons named Taylor involved in this transaction; the plaintiff, Verne W. Taylor, and his son, Verne J. Taylor, and for convenience they will be hereinafter respectively referred to as Taylor, Sr., and Taylor, Jr.

On October 21, 1920, the defendant Bernheim commenced suit against Taylor, Jr., to collect an indebtedness of $1,850, and a writ of attachment was issued and placed in the hands of the defendant Thomas F. Finn, as sheriff, for service. The latter levied the writ upon the automobile in question, which at the time was stored in the name of Taylor, Jr., in a public garage, on Geary Street, in San Francisco. The next day Taylor, Sr., claiming to be the owner of said automobile, presented to and filed with said sheriff a verified third party claim, in the form required by section 689 of the Code of Civil…