Payless Drug Stores Northwest, Inc. v. Brown

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “The legislature recognized that, although shoplifting may involve a techni- cal conversion, in a conversion action the merchant may not be able to prove damages if the merchandise is recovered and punitive damages could not, therefore, be recovered.”
• “The legislature recognized that, although shoplifting may involve a techni- cal conversion, in a conversion action the merchant may not be able to prove damages if the merchandise is recovered and punitive damages could not, therefore, be recovered.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).