Ex parte Overington

How courts have described this case

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• declining to decide whether electricity can be converted, but suggesting that assuming arguendo that it may be, the defendant would not be liable because he did not intend to take title to the electricity
• trial court properly awarded compensatory damages to plaintiff to repay him for amount overcharged by defendant electric company
• the general principle of damages is that the plaintiff is to be made whole and compensated for what he has lost
• “title cannot pass until goods are set apart and appropriated to the contract”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).