Draper v. Oppenheimer

Citations

• 9 Teiss. 3
• 1911 La. App. LEXIS 116

Syllabus

<p>1. Where property has been wrongfully converted, the owner may sue either for the property, or for its value, or in the alternative for the one or the other.</p> <p>2. Any refusal to deliver the property, not founded on the existence of some right or interest therein, is a wrongful conversion thereof, sufficient to warrant an action for the value thereof and damages.</p> <p>3. Upon all issues of fact the finding of the trial Judge is undoubtedly entitled to very great weight, but since the law grants an appeal on the facts as well as the law, an appellate Court is in duty bound' to consider and weigh the evidence for itself and reach its own. conclusion based thereon.</p>