SKEELS v. UNIVERSAL C. I. T. CREDIT CORPORATION

No. 14719.

335 F.2d 846 (1964)

John W. SKEELS v. UNIVERSAL C. I. T. CREDIT CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Estelle A. SKEELS, Third-Party Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided August 10, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard G. Segal, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant (Samuel D. Slade, Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, Philadelphia, Pa., Attys., on the brief).

Thomas H. Cauley, Elmer G. Klaber, Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellee (Cauley, Birsic & Clarke, Pittsburgh, Pa., Frank & Klaber, Pittsburgh, Pa., Attys., on the brief).

Before BIGGS, Chief Judge, and HASTIE and GANEY, Circuit Judges.


HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered on a verdict for $55,000 actual damages and $50,000 punitive damages in favor of the plaintiff Skeels, a franchised Chrysler automobile dealer in the Pittsburgh area, against Universal C. I. T. Credit Corporation, hereinafter abbreviated "UCIT", the financing agency which served the Skeels dealership. Skeels alleged and, in the view of the jury, proved that willful tortious conduct

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