Peoples Loan & Finance Corporation v. Halbeisen Motors Co.

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment for plaintiff in an action for damages for the wrongful conversion by defendant-appellant of an automobile which plaintiff had sold to Douglas Motor Sales, Inc. and on which Douglas, pursuant to its general floor planning arrangement with defendant, had given a bill of sale to secure $2,-800 it had borrowed from defendant.

Appellant’s main defense on the merits below and here is the same as it was in the appeal in Peoples Loan & Finance Co. v. Lawson, 5 Cir., 271 F.2d 529. This is that, though the check for the purchase price of the car…