Aris Vision Institute, Inc. v. Wasatch Property Management, Inc.

¶ 35 I am baffled by the trial court’s award of damages and by the majority’s affirmance of the entire award. I have no problem with the award of some $16,000 to compensate the tenant for personal property that came up missing while the landlord was wrongfully in possession of the premises. Likewise, I have no qualms about an award of $53,000 to compensate the tenant for damage to its lasers while in the landlord’s “care.” I fail to see, however, how damages for conversion and damages for trespass to chattels can be trebled pursuant to a statute that permits the extraordinary remedy of…