Rich v. Runyon

Defendants appeal from a judgment entered on a verdict for plaintiff awarding him damages for the alleged conversion by defendants of two bulk commodity trailers belonging to plaintiff. Defendants raise three assignments of error. The first two assignments (failure to direct a verdict and failure to instruct the jury) are on the ground that plaintiff had no right to immediate possession of the trailers because he never tendered a reasonable amount for towing and storage. The third assignment charges that the trial court failed to instruct the jury that, if it found that plaintiff abandoned…