Persons Subject To Action
The owner of a partial interest in property may be liable for converting the same, where he wrongfully takes it out of the possession of another, or does some other act amounting to a conversion. The following are the typical defendants in an action in conversion:
- Fraudulent takers and their transferees
- Owner as possessor of land
- Persons aiding and/or abetting in conversion
- Public officers
- An agent, even if he acts in good faith and in accordance with his instructions, if the principal is guilty of conversion
- The principal when his agent's act of converting the property is committed within the scope of the agency
- The owner of the property if he diminishes its value or sells or destroys it to the damage of a lienholder
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