Weber v. West Seattle Land & Improvement Co.

This is an appeal by the defendant in an action for conversion, from a judgment against it. The case was tried to a jury.

Appellant seems to raise the following principal questions: (1) Was the title to the property involved in the respondent at the time when it was converted; and, if not, can the respondent maintain this action as the assignee of the cause of action for conversion? (2) Did the trial court err in the admission and rejection of testimony bearing upon the question of the value of the property converted?

The question of whether or not there was a conversion was hotly contested…