Laursen v. Morris

Defendants appeal from a judgment on a jury verdict for conversion that awarded general and punitive damages. We affirm.

Defendants Jeanne and Ted Morris are husband and wife. Jeanne wrote a book on numerology. Her husband compiled the manuscript and organized and entered it on a computer. Plaintiff is a book designer. He works with an author’s manuscript and makes decisions concerning the size and style of type, placement and size of headings, size and shape of margins, length of lines and spaces between them and the numerous other factors that go into producing a finished book. After the…