Walker v. Cascade Milk Products Co.

This is an action in conversion. The cause was tried to the court sitting with a jury. At the conclusion of plaintiff’s evidence, the court granted defendant’s motion for nonsuit and thereafter entered judgment of dismissal. Plaintiff appealed.

That there was neither evidence nor reasonable inference from evidence of any act of conversion on the part of respondent at any time is clear from the record before us, which we summarize as follows: Under date of October 26, 1942, appellant executed a promissory note in the amount of $1,430.18, payable on demand to respondent corporation at the Yakima…