Hartshorn

An action in replevin was commenced by the plaintiff and appellant June 27, 1921, against defendant for the recovery of the possession or value of the personal property involved in this proceeding. The appellant alleged ownership and right to possession. The defendant answered claiming right to possession and ownership as purchasers of the property from F. M. Couch, as trustee; F. M. Couch, as trustee for Blake, Moffitt & Towne, intervened and claimed ownership to the property as purchaser from one E. F. Howe.

The property in question was originally purchased by E. F. Howe from the American Type Founders Company, under and by two conditional sales contracts; Howe was publishing a newspaper called “The Zanjero,’’ in the city of El Centro, and the property in question was practically the entire operating “plant” of this newspaper. Plowe was in default, and other parties (the plaintiff’s group) paid the balance due on these contracts to the American Type Founders Company to enable Howe to continue the publication of said newspaper for the purpose of advocating the completion of a certain irrigation canal, called the All American Canal, which was deemed to be for the benefit, among…