ROUSE v. ROY L. HOUCK SONS' CORPORATION


439 P.2d 856 (1968)

Fred ROUSE and Alice E. Standley, Co-Partners Doing Business As West Coast Crushing & Contracting, Appellants, v. ROY L. HOUCK SONS' CORPORATION, an Oregon Corporation, Respondent, Jimmie A. King and Betty J. King, Intervenors.

Supreme Court of Oregon, Department 1.

Decided April 24, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gordon G. Carlson, Roseburg, argued the cause and filed briefs for appellants.

Vernon L. Burda, Salem, argued the cause and filed brief for respondent.

Before PERRY, C.J., and O'CONNELL, GOODWIN, DENECKE, and LANGTRY, JJ.


GOODWIN, Justice.

Plaintiffs, claiming to be the assignees of a license to quarry and remove rock, appeal a judgment denying recovery in an action for damages for "conversion"1 against a construction company which quarried and removed rock under a subsequent license from the landowner.

The assignment of error challenges the granting of a judgment notwithstanding the verdict after a jury had awarded the plaintiffs general and punitive...

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