Carleton C. Rust v. Hart Garage Co.

Action of tort for the conversion of an automobile. The plaintiff had purchased the automobile on a conditional sale agreement from one Hodgkins, and, after an accident, had had it taken to Hodgkins’ Grarage in a damaged condition. After several weeks, during which *148time no repairs were made on it, a representative of the insurance company which had insured the other car involved in the accident, went to the garage with an officer of the defendant corporation and others. There was testimony that in the garage Hodgkins took part in a conversation “fixing the price at which the car should be…