Adair v. Freeman

By permitting themselves to be led down the primrose path of “conversion” the trial judge and my colleagues, who either authored or concurred in the majority opinion, have transformed a relatively simple relationship between the Adairs, the Brushes, the Freemans, the Eglands and Kenneth Poe into something filled with complexities.

In August 1965, when the Brushes purchased the personal property involved from the Adairs and borrowed $10,000 from the Freemans to make the down payment on such purchase, the relationship of these parties was as follows: the Brushes held the legal title to the…