Senfeld v. Bank of Nova Scotia Trust Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that in civil theft claim, once jury sets the amount of actual damages, it is a ministerial act for the trial court to triple those damages and enter final judgment in that amount
• finding that the prior version of the civil theft statute, then section 812.035, was remedial in nature
• knowing recipient of mistaken payment liable for conversion and under civil theft statute
• finding retroactive application of statute proper where statute incorporated previously criminal conduct
• “[W]hile a demand and refusal constitute evidence that a conversion has occurred, it is unnecessary to prove a demand and refusal where the conversion can be otherwise shown.”
• section 812.035(7) provides for tripling of actual damages awarded

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).