Earl v. Corley

EDWARDS, Judge.

Defendant, Elton Corley, d/b/a E & R Auto Repair, appeals a parish court judgment awarding Lawrence J. Earl, Sr., $2,400.00, interest and costs. We affirm.

A review of the record indicates that in October of 1979, Lawrence Earl brought his 1974 Oldsmobile to Elton Corley for certain repairs. A dispute subsequently broke out as to whether the repairs had been made properly. The precise chronology of facts is in dispute but Corley ultimately sold Earl’s car under LSA-R.S. 32:521-522, the Stored Motor Vehicles law.

Earl then brought this action for tortious conversion.

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