Noland v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.

KENNEDY, Presiding Judge.

This is a conversion case, in which the alleged conversion consisted of defendant’s unauthorized removal of plaintiff’s wrecked and disabled car from the auto body shop where she had placed it, to an auto salvage company lot some distance away. Trial to a jury resulted in a jury verdict for defendant, and plaintiff has appealed from the ensuing judgment.

Plaintiff on the afternoon of October 22, 1986, was driving her 1984 Pontiac Sunbird automobile south on Wornall Road in Kansas City. At the intersection of Wornall Road and 75th streets, a car going west ran a red…