STOUGHTON v. COLLA

No. 80-1061.

634 F.2d 1075 (1980)

Suzy STOUGHTON, Appellee, v. John COLLA, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided November 11, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel P. Card, II, St. Louis, Mo., for appellant.

Kenneth K. Vuylsteke, University City, Mo., Eugene H. Fahrenkrog, Jr., St. Louis, Mo., for appellee.

Before LAY, Chief Judge, and BRIGHT and McMILLIAN, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

John Colla appeals from a judgment entered on a general jury verdict in a malicious prosecution suit awarding Suzy Stoughton $45,000 in damages; $10,000 compensatory and $35,000 punitive. Colla alleges the District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, The Honorable William L. Hungate, improperly admitted certain testimony and other evidence. For the reasons stated below, we affirm.

In 1966 Stoughton and Colla started living together as man...

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