Wolfe v. McClung

EDWARD N. SCRUGGS, Retired Circuit Judge.

This is a conversion case.

After a nonjury trial, the circuit court expressly found that the defendant converted the Ford van in question on December 17, 1981, and a judgment was rendered *914for the plaintiff for $3,500. The defendant appealed.

Because of the attendant ore tenus presumptions which are accorded to the factual findings of the trial court, we will primarily summarize only some pertinent portions of the evidence that tend to uphold those findings.

Roma Taylor was, and is, the registered owner of the 1975 Ford van in controversy, having purchased…