W. E. Knox v. Ruth E. Pickles and Homer

RABINOWITZ, Justice. OPINION Appellant instituted suit in the superior court seeking damages arising out of appellees' purported
conversion of his property. Alternatively, appellant sought to regain possession of this personalty. 1 After a non-jury
trial, the superior court entered findings of fact and Conclusions of law, as well as judgment, which were generally favorable
to appellees. We hold that the judgment entered below should be affirmed with the exception of one minor provision thereof. Factually, the record shows that in April 1963 appellant purchased certain surplus carrier telegraph equipment from the salvage
yard at Elmendorf Air Force Base which is located near Anchorage, Alaska. Appellant paid the total sum of $102 for this electrical
equipment which at the time of its purchase was approximately 15 years old. After acquiring this property, appellant moved
it to a residential garage which was owned by appellee Pickles and her husband. Subsequent to the March 1964 earthquake, appellees
requested appellant to remove the electrical equipment he had stored in their garage. Prior to appellant's commencement of
this action in December 1964, appellees removed from their garage approximately one-third of the equipment that appellant
had stored there.