Case Credit Corp. v. Portales National Bank

{13} The majority describes conversion “as a ‘wrongful detention amounting to repudiation of the owner’s rights or an[y] exercise of dominion inconsistent with such rights.’ ” (quoting Apodaca v. Unknown Heirs, 98 N.M. 620, 624, 651 P.2d 1264, 1268 (1982)) (alteration indicating change from Apodaca). The Court of Appeals described the tort as “[‘]the unlawful exercise of dominion and control over personal property belonging to another in exclusion or defiance of the owner’s rights, or acts constituting an unauthorized and injurious use of another’s property, or a wrongful detention after…