M R & R TRUCKING COMPANY v. GRIFFIN

No. H-289.

198 So.2d 879 (1967)

M R & R TRUCKING COMPANY, a Florida Corporation, and Clarence W. Dukes, Appellants, v. Arthur Franklin GRIFFIN, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. First District.

Rehearing Denied June 5, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Norwood Gay, III, and Dempsey J. Barron, of Barron & Hilton, Panama City, and Ervin, Pennington, Varn & Jacobs, Tallahassee, for appellants.

Logue, Bennett & Williams, Panama City, and William J. Rish, Port St. Joe, for appellee.


WIGGINTON, Acting Chief Judge.

Defendants have appealed a final judgment based upon a jury verdict awarding plaintiff both compensatory and punitive damages. The appeal challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict, and questions the excessiveness of the damages awarded.

Appellee sued appellants in an action at law seeking both compensatory and punitive damages for personal injuries sustained by him as a result of an intentional tort committed...

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