Casey v. Kastel

This is a suit in conversion by an infant through her guardian ad litem. The property involved is a certificate of stock of the defendant- United States Steel Corporation. The evidence justifies a finding that the plaintiff intrusted the certificate to the defendant Kastel, subject to her order, and that without further direction Kastel sold it. Later, while still a minor, the plaintiff in form ratified the sale. She now seeks to hold in conversion, not only the defendant to whom she intrusted the certificate, but other brokers who were concerned in effecting the sale, and also the defendant…