Harrison

This is an appeal by the defendants from a judgment against them for $2,500 in an action brought by plaintiff to recover two 23-passenger motor-bus bodies, or their value, alleged to be $3,000. The trial court found that the plaintiff was the owner of said motor-bus bodies and that the defendant had, on June 13, 1918, wrongfully taken possession of them; that plaintiff had demanded their return, which demand was refused; that plaintiff was entitled to be restored to the possession of said motor-bus bodies, or in the event that defendants were unable to deliver them to plaintiff, plaintiff was entitled to judgment for $2,500, said sum being the value of said articles of personal property. Judgment was given accordingly.

The facts are: Defendants, doing business in San Francisco, sold to one Hark, a resident of Reno, Nevada, two Republic motor-trucks. Hark secured from plaintiff the motor-bus bodies in controversy and had them attached to the trucks. In doing this, some minor alterations were made in the trucks, such as changing the location of the gasoline tanks, etc. The motor-bus bodies were secured by Hark under a lease contract with Meister & Sons Company. This contract…