Semon v. Adams
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for the conversion of store fixtures, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Thayer, J.; verdict for the plaintiff which the trial judge set aside as against the evidence, and appeal by the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtHamersley, J.
This action was brought to test the title to personal property consisting of certain fixtures and utensils appropriate for use in a store or ldnch counter, alleged to be the property of the plaintiff, and to recover damages for a wrongful exercise of dominion by the defendant over the plaintiff’s property. The essential cause of action is a wrongful exercise of dominion over personal property of another. The-wrongful act may be committed when one takes the property of another; when one, having received the property of another for a specified use, appropriates it to a different use in…
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