Douglass

This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment awarding plaintiff the sum of $2,352.06, made up as follows: $1,000 for time lost by plaintiff in preparing to enter into a garage business on premises of defendant; $1,000 for conversion of certain personal property belonging to plaintiff; $126.43 for wages of a watchman guarding said personalty; $225.83 for loss sustained by plaintiff in relation to articles of equipment which he purchased in anticipation of engaging in said garage business. In totaling the specific items above mentioned, an error of twenty cents in favor of the defendant appears in the judgment.

The matters complained of were originally covered by a single complaint, the first count of which sought damages for conversion, the other counts, damages arising out of a transaction in relation to a lease. The first count was later dismissed and a separate action filed in lieu thereof and this new action was consolidated for trial with the original action. The appeal is upon the judgment-roll alone, and attacks particularly the findings made by the lower court as the basis of its judgment.

In the fall of 1927 defendant was erecting two buildings; a large apartment…