Cuellar v. Cope

Plaintiff filed complaint for money damages for conversion of chattels which she left in defendant’s home after terminating her employment in defendant’s household. The trial court, after a bench trial, entered judgment for the plaintiff in the sum of $524. Defendant appeals contending that the tidal court’s judgment and findings that there was no gift is against the manifest weight of the evidence, and that plaintiff’s testimony was not worthy of belief.

In October 1970 plaintiff came to live with her friend, the defendant, for their mutual convenience in that plaintiff would care for…