Shearer v. Bill Garlic Motors, Inc.

This case is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment on a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff in the sum -of $1,600 against the defendant after the trial judge had instructed the jury that the defendant- as a matter of law had committed a conversion of plaintiff’s automobile. The only issue submitted to the jury was the damages caused plaintiff based on the value of the plaintiff’s automobile at the time of the conversion.

The complaint of plaintiff claimed that the defendant had converted a 1969 Oldsmobile owned by plaintiff and that the value of the auto at the date of conversion was…