Calexico Lumber Co. v. Emerson

This is an action of conversion. The plaintiff had judgment and the defendants appeal.

The first point made by appellants is that the evidence is insufficient to support the court’s finding of conversion. The property involved in the action consisted of 556 bundles of laths,' and the parties had already had a contest over the same property in an action of replevin. In that action, which, for convenience, will be referred to henceforth as the replevin action, the defendants in this action, appellants also, were plaintiffs, and vice versa. The replevin action resulted peculiarly, in this, that…