Tully v. Tranor

Citations

• 2 Cal. Unrep. 43

Syllabus

<p>Conversion—Measure of Damages.—The Amendment to Section 3336 of the Civil Code, whereby one suing with reasonable diligence for the wrongful conversion of personal property could no longer assess the detriment presumable as at the highest market value between the conversion and the verdict, was intended to be retrospective.</p> <p>Conversion—Measure of Damages.—The Amendment to Section 3330 of the Civil Code, whereby one suing with reasonable diligence for the wrongful conversion of personal property could no longer assess the detriment presumable as at the highest market value between the conversion and the verdict, does not impair the obligation of contracts within the inhibition of thg constitution of the United States.</p> <p>Conversion.—A Law Changing a Rule of Presumption as to the Measure of Detriment to be claimed in an action for wrongful conversion does not deprive a plaintiff of a vested right.</p> <p>Impairment of Contract.—A Law Directed at a Remedy Merely cannot be Said to impair the obligation of contracts, when the effect is not to take away all redress.</p>