Another case is Dillard v. Payne, 615 S.W.2d 53 (Mo.1981). There plaintiff made a contingent fee contract for defendant attorneys to represent him. He paid them $300.00 into a “trust account” for the purpose of paying costs expended in the legal action. Defendants withdrew without filing the suit, and attorney Payne notified plaintiff that $290.00 held would be applied to Payne’s attorney fees. The court held, page 55[1, 2] that “ * * * conversion does not ordinarily lie for money represented by a general debt. (Citing cases.) However, the rule is otherwise as to funds placed in the custody of another for a specific purpose and their diversion for other than such specified purpose subjects the holder to liability in conversion.” Cited for the last portion of the quotation is the Coleman case, supra; Franta v. Hodge, 302 S.W.2d 291 (Mo.App.1957) [where a real estate salesman, who did not tell the prospective purchasers he was the owner of a house, retained their $1,000 earnest money deposit. Plaintiff received judgment for actual damages in conversion, which was affirmed]; and Scott v. Twin City State Bank, 537 S.W.2d 641, 644-645[9] (Mo.App.1976) [where a $95 insurance refund was used to reimburse respondent’s $45.60 expenses in repossession of an automobile, the replevin and repossession being held to have been wrongful]. In the Dillard v. Payne and Twin City cases, supra, there was more specific evidence of diversion of funds from their specified purpose.