Conversion, or civil theft, requires a plaintiff to make a demand for possession of the converted property before suing for its return. This pre-suit demand’s purpose is to give a defendant the opportunity to return plaintiff’s property and avoid unnecessary litigation. What constitutes a demand though? The easiest case is where a plaintiff serves a …
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Voluntary Payment of Wages Sinks Transit Agency’s Conversion Counterclaim Against Ex-Employees – IL ND
In Laba v. CTA, 2016 WL 147656 (N.D.Ill. 2016), the Court considers the contours of the conversion tort in a dispute involving former Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) employees who lied about their hours worked. The CTA claimed the employees converted or “stole” paycheck monies by falsifying employee time records in order to get paid by the agency. The Court dismissed the CTA’s …