Mid-Continent Specialists, Inc. v. Capital Homes, L.C.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Nuss, J.:

Mid-Continent Specialists, Inc. (Mid-Continent) sued Capital Homes, L.C. (Capital Homes) for conversion based on a $50,000 check to Capital Homes written on Mid-Continent’s cor porate bank account by Mid-Continent employee Lynn Smith for her personal debt. After a bench trial, the court held that K.S.A. 84-3-420(a) barred Mid-Continent from suing for conversion as a matter of law. Mid-Continent appealed, and the case was transferred to this court pursuant to K.S.A. 20-3018(c).

The issues on appeal, and this court’s accompanying holdings, are as…