Commercial Credit Corp. v. Patterson

HUGHES, Justice.

This suit was brought by appellees, C. W. and H. N. Patterson, against appellant, Commercial Credit Corporation, for damages, actual and exemplary, for conversion of personal property.

Appellees claimed a prior landlord’s lien, statutory and contractual, on the property and appellant claimed under a chattel mortgage lien.

The acts upon which the alleged conversion is based were committed by appellant’s agents on December 29, 1949, when they, with the consent of the lessee, M. R. Watson, but over the protest of appellees, took from the leased building certain of the items, listed…