McCafferty v. Gilbank

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment of nonsuit in an action seeking compensatory and punitive damages from defendant, an attorney at law, for conversion. The property allegedly converted consisted of her claimed interest in the proceeds of two drafts payable jointly to defendant and Robert Swiger, his client and plaintiff’s former husband, in settlement of the latter’s action, then pending in Los Angeles, against one Jean and arising from an automobile accident. Prior to the above settlement, finalized in December of 1963, plaintiff had secured a judgment in Ohio against Swiger in the amount of…