Lee v. Bell

*628The principal questions in this case are whether a tenant’s creditor, or its landlords, has the initial burden of going forward with evidence that: (1) replacement fixtures to be purchased by the landlords have a greater value than the fixtures wrongfully removed by the creditor; and (2) the replacement costs exceed the diminution in market value of the realty resulting from their removal. An additional issue is whether the landlords’ evidence of the cost of replacing the fixtures was clear and uncóntradicted.

On March 31, 1981, William Lee and Janice J. Lee (the landlords) leased their…