Smith v. New York Evening Journal Pub. Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that measure of damages for conversion of personal property is generally value of property at time of conversion, but damages for conversion of corporate stock are measured by value of stock within reasonable time after conversion
• “As a general rule the measure of damages for the conversion of personal property is the value of the property at the time of the conversion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).