Giffin v. Petree

This is an action seeking compensatory and punitive damages for an alleged conversion of personal property by defendant Frank Petree, trustee in bankruptcy of John F. Iden, a bankrupt. The jury returned a verdict of $2000 compensatory, and $1500 punitive damages. Whereupon defendant sued out, in this court, a writ of error.

At the outset there seems to have been at least two other defendants, but plaintiff dismissed as to' one and the other was let out in some unknown way, for Petree is the only defendant who now answers, and the only one against whom the verdict is returned. For convenience,…