ATLAS HOTEL SUPPLY COMPANY v. Baney

This is an appeal from a judgment of the trial court, sitting without a jury, awarding plaintiff $75,-000 damages for conversion of restaurant equipment. The judgment is against defendants Curtis Baney, Attilio Marastoni and William Jacobson.

These defendants assign as error the holding that no demand was required in order to constitute a conversion under the facts of this case; that defendant Curtis Baney was a joint tortfeasor, and contend that in its award of $75,000 the court applied the wrong measure of damages. Plaintiff cross-appeals from the failure of the trial court to grant judgment…