WHITEHEAD v. ALLEN

No. 6190.

313 P.2d 335 (1957)

63 N.M. 63

Stanley E. WHITEHEAD, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John ALLEN and Claude Allen, doing business as AAA Alfalfa Milling Company, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

July 2, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frazier & Cusack, Roswell, for appellants.

Bean, Osborn & Snead, Roswell, for appellee.


SADLER, Justice.

The defendants below as appellants in this Court complain of a judgment against them entered on a jury's verdict for the sum of $833.20, made up of $333.20, actual damages and $500 punitive damages.

The action was one by plaintiff against the defendants to recover damages for breach of a contract for the purchase by defendants from plaintiff of 122 acres of alfalfa to be harvested, dehydrated and processed by the defendants. The agreement...

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