Cengage Advantage Books: Law for Business 19th Edition by John Ashcroft,Katherine Ashcroft,Martha Patterson

Exercise 7

Johnson-Schmitt gave several dogs to Dispenza to find good homes for them. Dispenza did not find good homes for them, but rather kept them on his property in such deplorable conditions that they were eventually seized by the sheriff, turned over to the local SPCA, and adopted out to other families. Johnson-Schmitt later sued the county claiming an unlawful conversion of her property (the dogs). Did Johnson-Schmitt have any property right in the dogs at the time they were seized?