Court Opinion

ID: 9937858
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-02-09 19:02:05.539881+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:36:30.572676
License: Public Domain

I respectfully dissent.
The majority has, I believe, fallen prey to circuitous reasoning. Refusal to deliver, after demand, is the cornerstone of a conversion action. Yet, the majority has here held that Best Western's refusal to deliver McCain's payroll check bars her action for conversion.
I think the appropriate and equitable solution involves recognition that, when there is a refusal to deliver with the intention of preventing exercise of intangible rights in a document, intangible rights merge with the document to provide it with a legal inception and a valid existence. SeeRestatement of Torts (Second) § 242 (1964).
JONES and ADAMS, JJ., concur.