Cincinnati Finance Co. v. Booth

This was an ordinary action in conversion, with a second cause of action for the recovery of dividends declared upon the stock claimed to have been converted, and for exemplary and compensatory damages by reason of the wrongful conversion.

There are certain things found by the courts below which narrow this inquiry down to the question of the measure of damages in a ease of this character. Both courts below found that thercwas a conversion of the stock in question, the court of common pleas finding for Booth, the plaintiff below, nominal damages only. The Court of Appeals reversing this…