IN MATTER OF RETURN OF PROPERTY IN STATE v. PIPPIN

No. 91-2666.

176 Wis.2d 418 (1993)

500 N.W.2d 407

IN the MATTER OF the RETURN OF PROPERTY IN STATE v. Donald L. PIPPIN, Jr.: NATIONAL PAWN BROKERS UNLIMITED, and Hull Loan Systems, Appellants, v. OSTERMAN, INC., Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided April 22, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellants the cause was submitted on the brief of Antonette Hue Laitsch of Murphy & Desmond, S.C. of Madison, and co-counsel Stuart E. Gale of Bloomington, Minnesota.

For the respondent the cause was submitted on the brief of Patricia K. McDowell, Donald K. Schott and Anthony A. Tomaselli of Quarles & Brady of Madison.

Before Eich, C.J., Gartzke, P.J., and Dykman, J.


GARTZKE, P.J.

National Pawn Brokers and Hull Loan Systems ("pawnbrokers") appeal from a circuit court order returning jewelry to Osterman, Inc. The jewelry was evidence in a trial on criminal charges against Donald Pippin. He had obtained it from Osterman, a retail jeweler in Madison, Wisconsin, by paying with a bad check and then pawned it to appellants in Minnesota.1 Both sides claim a security interest in the jewelry. We hold that the...

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