Arnold v. Prange

SMITH, Chief Judge.

Defendants’ appeal from a judgment against them for $924 actual and $1500 each punitive damages for their alleged conversion of plaintiffs’ cattle. We reverse for failure of plaintiffs to make a case.

On August 28, 1972, defendants found three steers 1 upon their property. They promptly called the sheriff and asked him to notify plaintiffs that defendants believed plaintiffs’ cattle were loose on defendants’ land. This the sheriff did immediately. After some period of time during which plaintiffs did not show up, the cattle were taken to a pen on defendants’ farm. The next…