Fitzgerald v. People's Finance & Thrift Co.

This action was commenced in the district court of Stephens county on December 4, 1935, by the People’s Thrift & Finance Company, an Oklahoma corporation, engaged in the business of buying commercial paper secured by chattel mortgages on automobiles. The plaintiff, in its amended petition, upon which the issues were framed, sought to recover from Pat Fitzgerald and H. B. Lockett, as defendants, the sum of $310, with interest accrued and accruing, for the alleged conversion of an automobile, in which the plaintiff claimed a special interest of the value above set forth by virtue of a chattel…