Kroger Food Company v. Singletary

KEITH, Justice.

Plaintiff, Singletary, recovered judgment against defendant, Kroger Food Company, and its manager, Len Brown, for conversion of his automobile ($175.00), the rental value thereof during its detention ($1,760.00), and exemplary damages ($3,-925.00). The parties will be designated as they appeared in the lower court.

On a Saturday afternoon, plaintiff went to the Kroger supermarket in Lufkin to purchase groceries in his 1954 Chevrolet which he had had for some eight or ten years, and was accompanied by a boy thirteen years of age. He parked on Kroger’s parking lot, left the boy in…