Service Finance Corp. v. Singleton

MONTEITH, Chief Justice.

This action was brought by appellee, Jasper Singleton, for the recovery of actual and exemplary damages growing out of the alleged conversion of an automobile by appellants, Service Finance Corporation and Bert Wilcut.

Appellee alleged that on or about May 16, 1939, he had purchased for cash a 1938 model Chrysler automobile from one W. A. Utzman, an automobile dealer in Edna, Texas, without the knowledge that any liens existed against it; that the automobile, on the date of said purchase and prior thereto, had been daily exposed for sale by the said W. A. Utzman and…