Nalley v. Thomason

1. Any conversion by a bailee of the property bailed will defeat any lien which the bailee may have in the property, arising out of the contract of bailment, and will therefore authorize the .bailor to maintain a suit in trover against the bailee for a conversion of the property. 19 Am. & Eng. Enc. Law, 32.

2. Where there is an unauthorized, removal and appropriation to one’s own use of any of the substantial and essential parts of an entire chattel, such conversion will, if the chattel be a complicated mechanism constructed to perform certain work, amount to a conversion of the whole, if the…