GILLETTE, Judge.
This was an action for conversion of a sturgeon and a water ski rope belonging to plaintiff. Defendant is a state police officer. A jury returned a verdict for $250 compensatory and $750 punitive damages. From the resulting judgment, defendant appeals. We reverse.
On Saturday, September 10, 1977, plaintiff, his uncle and their wives went fishing on the Columbia River at a pump platform below John Day Dam. At sunset plaintiff caught a 43 1...
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