Universal C.I.T. Credit Corporation v. Rubye C. Stewart

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

Mrs. Stewart sues Universal C.I.T. Credit Corporation for damages for the conversion of her automobile and for exemplary damages on the ground that the. conversion was in willful disregard of her rights. Either or both of two conversions is claimed, the first in the taking of the automobile, the second in its disposition. Universal C.I.T. defends, claiming that it took and disposed of the automobile under the terms of a purchase money chattel mortgage.1 Judgment was entered upon a jury’s verdict for the plaintiff in the amount of $358.24 as actual damages plus $1,250 as…