Glass v. Brunt

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

This was an action for damages for the tortious conversion of a compressor stolen from the cold-meat counter of the plaintiffs grocery store.

It appears that on the night of September 15, 1940, one Mitchell Benton stole the compressor with its operating motor and hid it in *28an alley until next morning, when he took it to defendant’s junk yard, and began to smash it with a sledge hammer. Brunt, the proprietor of the junk yard, had not yet arrived. One Charley Brown,’ a trucker, was there and helped Benton reduce the compressor to junk.

When…