Allred v. Hinkley

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that by taking possession of property from an individual who had no right to sell it, innocent purchaser converted such property to its own use
• determining the extent of a husband’s ownership of various items of property which were allegedly converted
• noting the undisputed principle that “an agent whose employment is restricted to purchases for cash supplied by the principal ... has no authority to bind the principal’s credit”
• conversion “requires such a serious interference with the owner’s right that the person interfering therewith may reasonably be required to buy the goods”
• ―A conversion is an act of [willful] interference with a chattel, done without lawful justification by which the person entitled thereto is deprived of its use and possession.‖
• “[A] bona fide purchaser of goods for value from one who has no right to sell them becomes a converter when he takes possession of such goods.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).