Court Opinion

ID: 9712695
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 04:58:32.908425+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:13.638463
License: Public Domain

Simmons, C. J.,
dissenting.
To me it is not too material whether the auctioneer was the agent of the owner or a principal. The ultimate foundation question is: Was it a conversion?
I have been unable to see where the mortgagee was deprived of any right it had by the sale of this property.
The following quote from 89 C. J. S., Trover & Conversion, § 48(b), p. 554, states my thought — to constitute a conversion the lienholder must have been deprived of a right: “A wrongful sale of goods whereby a person who has a part interest therein, or a lien thereon, is deprived of his right, is a conversion whether the wrongdoer is an owner of another part or a lienholder, or a stranger to the property.”
The same text is in 65 C. J., Trover and Conversion, § 50, p, 39.