Brunette v. Quincy Mining Co.

How courts have described this case

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• “An action will not lie for the conversion of a mere debt or chose in action.”
• even though a payee who failed to timely probate its claim on the note of the deceased was barred as an unsecured creditor, the payee was entitled to recover the salvage value of the destroyed automobile, which had been mortgaged to secure the debt.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).