Presley v. Wilson

BOND, Chief Justice.

Appellee, as plaintiff in the court below, instituted this suit in a district court of Dallas County against appellant, as defendant, claiming actual and exemplary damages by reason of unlawful and malicious conduct of the defendant in exacting usurious interest and ■ other unlawful charges for the use of money borrowed, and for the conversion of his automobile as the result thereof.

A trial was had to a jury, and, on findings that the defendant, prompted by malice toward the plaintiff, unlawfully converted plaintiff’s automobile; that its reasonable cash market value at…