Hoffman v. Wall

RAY, Justice.

This is a conversion case. Appellants (plaintiffs), James W. Hoffman and Max Lawson, brought suit against appellee (defendant), John Wall, seeking damages for the alleged conversion of several pieces of printing equipment and related items of personal property which appellants had stored in appellee’s building. Appellee Wall pleaded the affirmative defenses of abandonment and limitations. The jury, in answer to special issues, found that Wall had converted appellants’ property and found the value of Hoffman’s property to have been $19,000.00 and Lawson’s property to have been…