PJC General Negligence 2024

PJC 7.10

T HEFT L IABILITY

Mental anguish damages. Mental anguish damages cannot be recovered on a conversion claim. See Winkle-Chevy-Olds-Pontiac, Inc. , 830 S.W.2d at 746. Note that in Beaumont v. Basham , 205 S.W.3d 608, 620 (Tex. App.—Waco 2006, pet. denied), the court recognized that the plaintiff could recover mental anguish damages under the Act where the party committing theft acted with malice.

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