TUEL v. HERTZ CORPORATION

No. 73-881.

296 So.2d 597 (1974)

Woodrow TUEL and Muriel Tuel, His Wife, Appellants, v. The HERTZ CORPORATION, Etc., et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied July 19, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hawkesworth, Kay & Schmick, Horton & Perse and Arnold R. Ginsberg, Miami, for appellants.

Knight, Peters, Hoeveler, Pickle, Niemoeller & Flynn, Miami, for appellees.

Before CARROLL and HENDRY, JJ., and BOARDMAN, EDWARD F., Associate Judge.


HENDRY, Judge.

Appellants-plaintiffs seek review of an adverse judgment on the issue of punitive damages which was rendered by the trial court pursuant to defendants' motion for directed verdict on that issue at the conclusion of the plaintiffs' case.

A jury subsequently awarded the appellants a sum of $81,500 in compensatory damages as a result of an automobile accident at the intersection of S.W. 197th Avenue and 296th Street, in Dade County. The single...

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