Karst

This is an action in conversion. Plaintiff alleges in her complaint that she was the owner and entitled to the possession of a certain automobile, which she alleges was wrongfully taken away, converted, and sold by defendant, Thomas F. Finn, sheriff of the city and county of San Francisco, to satisfy a judgment which the sheriff’s codefendant, Cuyler Lee, had obtained against one E. J. White.

The trial was had before a jury, which returned a verdict for plaintiff in the sum of $750 damages against both defendants.

Thereafter defendants moved for a new trial, which was granted, and the plaintiff appeals from that order.

One of the grounds upon which the motion for a new trial was made is the insufficiency of the evidence to justify the verdict, and the evidence is before us. The order of the court granting a new trial is in general terms, without specifying the grounds of this action; and, in support of the order, we will assume that it was made upon the ground of insufficiency of the evidence. (Weisser v. Southern Pacific Co., 148 Cal. 426 , [7 Ann. Cas. 636, 83 Pac. 439 ] ; Morgan v. J. W. Robinson Co., 157 Cal. 348 , [ 107 Pac. 695 ]; Gordon v. Roberts, 162 Cal. 506 , [ 123…