Pryor v. Universal C. I. T. Credit Corp.

POPE, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order dismissing plaintiff’s cause of action on the ground that his petition failed to assert a bona fide cause of action for an amount within the jurisdiction of the court.

Plaintiff’s petition asserted a cause of action for wilful conversion and also one for usury. For our purposes it is unnecessary to consider the allegations, ex cept insofar as they relate to the conversion features. Plaintiff alleged that defendant’s employee physically took from him the keys to his automobile, and that he deprived the plaintiff of possession by means of force,…