Theis v. Federal Finance Co.

Plaintiff, Ruth Annette Theis, seeks damages for: (1) humiliation and embarrassment; (2) loss of use of property; (3) storage charges and other incidental expenses, all of which resulted from defendant’s (Federal Finance Co., Inc.) seizure of her household goods during an attempted foreclosure by notice and sale of a forged chattel mortgage; and (4) her subsequent restraint by court order from moving goods from Spokane County or selling them during the pendency of trial. Defendant cross-complained to foreclose the mortgage.

The trial court, sitting without a jury, found in favor of plaintiff,…