Dent v. Holbrook

Citations

• 54 Cal. 145

Syllabus

<p>Conversion — Stock—Measure of Damages — Retroactive Amendment.— Prior to the amendment of January 22nd, 1878, to the Civil Code, § 3336, the defendant converted certain stock of the plaintiff. Held—upon appeal from a judgment rendered subsequently to the amendment, in an action for the conversion of the stock, commenced prior to the amendment—that the plaintiff was entitled to recover the damages prescribed in the section as amended, to wit, the highest market value of the stock at any time between the conversion and the verdict.</p>