Presley v. Wilson

Appellee, as plaintiff in the court below, instituted this suit in a district court of Dallas County against appellant, as defendant, claiming actual and exemplary damages by reason of unlawful and malicious conduct of the defendant in exacting usurious interest and other unlawful charges for the use of money borrowed, and for the conversion of his automobile as the result thereof.

A trial was had to a jury, and, on findings that the defendant, prompted by malice toward the plaintiff, unlawfully converted plaintiffs automobile; that its reasonable cash market value at the time of the…