Harpending v. Meyer

Citations

• 55 Cal. 555
• 1880 Cal. LEXIS 322

Syllabus

<p>Conversion—Bailee—Action—Statute oe LmrrATioNS.—Where the possession of property is obtained, (in good faith or otherwise) from one who had no right to transfer it, a right of action by the owner against the transferee accrues as soon as the latter acquires possession, and no demand or further act of conversion is necessary. Accordingly, in an action against defendants, who had, in good faith, and without notice of the plaintiffs rights, received in pledge the plaintiffs goods from her bailee, and afterward sold them, held, that the Statute of Limitations commenced to run from the time of the defendant acquiring possession, and not from the time of the subsequent sale by them.</p>