Carpenter v. Lent

Blake, J. —

This is an action in conversion. Plaintiff recovered judgment for $1,060, the value of fourteen lift vans and a Pierce-Arrow furniture van, which the court found to he the property of the plaintiff and to have been appropriated by the defendants. Defendants appeal.

In order to understand the questions to be disposed of on the appeal, it is necessary to make, in considerable detail, a statement of the facts out of which the alleged conversion arose.

The appellants were the owners of a warehouse on Westlake avenue, in Seattle. Prior to June, 1933, they had leased the property to…