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HUTCHINS v. CITY OF HIALEAH

No. 35708.

196 So.2d 741 (1967)

James HUTCHINS, Petitioner, Cross-Respondent, v. CITY OF HIALEAH, a Municipality, Respondent, Cross-Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Florida.

March 15, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred Gustinger, Jr., Irving Whitman and Kenneth L. Ryskamp, Miami, for petitioner-cross-respondent.

Ralph F. Miles, Hialeah, for respondent-cross-petitioner.

THOMAS, Acting Chief Justice.

The original trial had culminated in a verdict against the individual defendant, O. Harris, in the amount of $1,227.25 compensatory damages and $5,000 punitive damages, and also a verdict against the City of Hialeah in the sum of $32,627.25 compensatory damages, stated in three separate verdicts. In a fourth verdict the jury found for the defendant-city on the issue whether or not punitive damages should be assessed against it. The action...

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