AGRISTOR LEASING v. A.O. SMITH HARVESTORE PRODUCTS, INC.

No. 88-5226.

869 F.2d 264 (1989)

AGRISTOR LEASING, a Wisconsin Partnership; Agristor Credit Corporation, a Delaware corporation; Steiner Financial Corporation, a Utah corporation, Plaintiffs, William Dayon Taylor; Paulette Taylor, Defendants, Counter-Plaintiffs and Third-Party Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. A.O. SMITH HARVESTORE PRODUCTS, INC., Third-Party Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

January 9, 1989.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied March 24, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John K. Maddin, Jr., Gracey, Maddin, Cowan & Bird, Nashville, Tenn., Arnold A., Jr., Hatfield, Van Cleave & Stulce, Chattanooga, Tenn., D. Michael Tranum, Knoxville, Tenn., Robert L. Crossley, Richard E. Herod, and James A. DeLanis, Nashville, Tenn., for Agristor Leasing, a Wisconsin Partnership, Agristor Credit Corp., a Delaware corp. and Steiner Financial Corp., a Utah corp., plaintiffs.

Malcolm L. McCune, James A. Vick, Gracey, Maddin, Cowan & Bird, Nashville, Tenn., Robert R. Ramsey, Burnett & Ramsey, Jamestown, Tenn., for William Dayon Taylor, defendant-appellee.

Robert R. Ramsey, Jamestown, Tenn., for Paulette Taylor, defendant-appellee.

Donald E. Egan, Lee Ann Watson, Bonita L. Stone, Katten, Muchin & Zavis, Chicago, Ill., John E. Brandon, David J. Pflaum, Watkins, McGugin, McNeilly & Rowan, Nashville, Tenn., for A.O. Smith Corp., defendant.

Before MILBURN and NORRIS, Circuit Judges, and SUHRHEINRICH, District Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied March 24, 1989.

MILBURN, Circuit Judge.

A.O. Smith Harvestore Products, Inc. ("AOSHPI"), the third-party defendant, appeals from the judgment entered on the jury verdict for Dayon Taylor, the third-party plaintiff, in this diversity action originally brought to recover silos and damages for breach of a lease. The jury awarded Taylor approximately $1.1 million dollars in compensatory and punitive damages against AOSHPI...

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