Candler v. Ash

This appeal by defendant-appellant is from a final judgment of the Fremont Municipal Court on the pleadings in favor of plaintiff-appellee in the sum of one hundred dollars compensatory damages and five hundred dollars punitive damages.

A Fremont police officer had defendant, who operates a garage and body shop, tow plaintiff’s automobile from the scene of an accident. Plaintiff alleged a tort claim of conversion of personal property, that defendant wrongfully refused to return and deliver possession of the automobile to plaintiff, and sought one thousand dollars compensatory damages and five…