Guarantee Bond & Mortgage Co. v. Hilding

(after stating the facts). Writers ' and courts have used language which tends to support the view of the learned trial judge, that defendant’s acts of pasting the notices on the windshields and asserting title in himself were per se a conversion. Indeed, it is somewhat surprising to find such a variety of holdings as to what constitutes conversion. Bacon, in his Abridgment (9 Bouvier’s Ed. Bacon’s Abridgment, p. 638), said:

“It is not requisite to show a manual taking of the thing in question, nor that the defendant applied it to his own use, to constitute a conversion; the assumption of a…