innocent converter. A person who takes another’s chattel tortiously but in good faith and without knowledge that he or she has no entitlement to it.
converter
converter, n. One who wrongfully possesses or disposes of another’s property; esp., one who engages in a series of acts of willful interference, without lawful justification, with an item of property in a manner inconsistent with another’s right, whereby that other person is deprived of the use and possession of the property.