Ashworth v. Glover

*87HENRIOD, Justice:

Appeal from a no cause judgment, in an action where the plaintiff sued defendant in tort, not quasi-contract, for conversion of plans he had drawn. Reversed, with costs to- plaintiff A.

In 1960 A designed a drive-in restaurant for one Allen, who paid the former for his services. Allen thereafter expanded his business and built another drive-in, essentially identical in structure and design, save for plot and minor other changes,— within a radius of about 30 miles on a through highway. Allen continued to use A’s plans and his supervision of construction. On the occasion of the…