Etheridge v. Kay

Quillian, Presiding Judge.

This is an action for damages resulting from the alleged conversion by the defendant of the personal property of the plaintiff. Defendant Etheridge appeals from a jury verdict for the plaintiff. Held:

1. Defendant enumerates as error the denial of his motion for a directed verdict at the conclusion of plaintiffs evidence. The jury was authorized to find from the evidence that plaintiffs tractor-trailer had been stolen and that it carried a cargo of crabmeat and canned boneless beef. After plaintiffs tractor-trailer had been stolen, police left a decoy trailer near the…