Owens v. Andrews Bank & Trust Co.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “there can be no conversion where there is a mere obligation to pay a debt. Thus, where there is merely the relationship of debtor and creditor, an action based on conversion of the funds representing the debt is improper”
• “[W]here there is merely the relationship of debtor and creditor, an action based on conversion of the funds representing the debt is improper”
• “[T]here can be no conversion where there is a mere obligation to pay a debt.”
• “[T]here can be no conversion where there is a mere obligation to pay a debt. Thus, where there is merely the relationship of debtor and creditor, an action based on conversion of the funds 9 representing the debt is improper.”
• Conversion may arise by the illegal detention of another’s property.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).