Case Name: Homer HANSON, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. ASSOCIATES FINANCE INC., and Utah Communications, Inc., Defendants and Respondents
Court: Utah Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Utah
Decision Date: 1972-04-25
Citations: 27 Utah 2d 349
Docket Number: No. 12556
Parties: Homer HANSON, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. ASSOCIATES FINANCE INC., and Utah Communications, Inc., Defendants and Respondents.
Judges: CALLISTER, C. J., and TUCKETT, ELLETT, and CROCKETT, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Utah Reports, Second Series
Volume: 27
Pages: 349–350

Head Matter:
496 P.2d 266
Homer HANSON, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. ASSOCIATES FINANCE INC., and Utah Communications, Inc., Defendants and Respondents.
No. 12556.
Supreme Court of Utah.
April 25, 1972.
Homer Hanson, pro se.
Norman Wade, Salt Lake City, for plaintiff and appellant.
Callister, Kesler & Callister, Gary R. Howe, Salt Lake City, for defendants and respondents.

Opinion:
HENRIOD, Justice:
Appeal from a no-cause-of-action judgment after trial based on an alleged conversion in 1964 of a home radio antenna and lead-in wire, and for damages for a trespass incident to the conversion. Affirmed, with costs to defendants.
In spite of plaintiff's urgence, the judgment was based on believable, although disputed evidence, to the effect that he knew who owned the property and stood mute during its repossession, — inconsistent with his claim of ownership or the concept of trespass de bonis asportatis and quaere clausum fregit, — and that there was, therefore,, no basis for an estoppel of defendants' claim of ownership, as asserted by plaintiff.
CALLISTER, C. J., and TUCKETT, ELLETT, and CROCKETT, JJ., concur.