General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. Davis

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Thiele, J.:

This was an action to recover damages for the conversion of an automobile.

For present purposes it may be said that on February 23, 1949, General Motors Acceptance Corporation, hereafter called the corporation, commenced an action against Arnold Davis, alleging that it had a special ownership or interest in a described Ford automobile by reason of a described conditional sales contract which had been filed in the office of the register of deeds of Sumner county, and that there was due it under that contract the sum of $389.60; that defendant…