Manhattan Credit Co. v. Skirvin

Paul Ward, Associate Justice.

Appellee, A. Y. Skirvin, sued appellant, Manhattan Credit Company, Inc. for the conversion of an automobile, and was awarded actual damages in the amount of $500 and the same amount for punitive damages. For a reversal, appellant prosecutes this appeal.

Because of the disposition which we make of the several issues presented for decision, we deem it necessary to make only a summary statement of the facts leading up to this litigation. On April 9, 1955 appellee purchased a 1955 Ford from Rebsamen Motors in Little Rock, executing a conditional sales contract for a…