Gill v. Mercantile Trust Company

WOLFE, Judge.

This comes to the writer upon reassignment. It is an action predicated upon the theory that there was a wrongful conversion of plaintiff’s automobile by the defendant corporation. The trial was to a jury, which returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $300 actual damages and $5,000 punitive damages. The defendant’s motion for a new trial was sustained, and the plaintiff prosecutes this appeal.

The petition alleged that the plaintiff was the owner of an automobile and that the defendant’s agents illegally and wrongfully converted the automobile to the defendant’s use, and…