TEXAS PLASTICS v. ROTO-LITH, LTD.

No. 16434.

250 F.2d 844 (1958)

TEXAS PLASTICS, Inc., and Fred J. Meyer, Appellants, v. ROTO-LITH, Ltd., and Harry Borak, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

January 9, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred B. Wagner, Brownsville, Tex., Allen Wood, Corpus Christi, Tex., R. Dean Moorhead, Austin, Tex., Cox, Wagner, Adams & Wilson, Brownsville, Tex., Fischer, Wood, Burney & Nesbitt, Corpus Chrisi, Tex., Looney, Clark & Moorhead, Austin, Tex., for appellants.

James C. Abbott, William E. York, McAllen, Tex., Ewers, Cox & Toothaker, McAllen, Tex., of counsel, for appellees.

Before TUTTLE, JONES and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment following a jury verdict in a slander suit. The jury returned a verdict against the defendants Meyer and his employer, Texas Plastics, Inc., for $25,000 damages and $50,000 exemplary damages. The trial court denied defendants' motion for new trial on condition that plaintiffs agree to a remittitur of $25,000 on the exemplary damage part of the verdict. This was agreed to, and defendants appealed from the judgment...

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