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PEERMAN v. SIDICANE

605 S.W.2d 242 (1980)

C. Gordon PEERMAN, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Stanley H. SIDICANE and Martha Beazley Carson, Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Tennessee, Middle Section.

Rehearing Denied April 25, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ward DeWitt, Jr., Trabue, Sturdivant & DeWitt, Nashville, for plaintiff-appellee.

W.A. Moody, Nashville, for defendants-appellants.

OPINION

SHRIVER, Presiding Judge.

This is a suit by a physician against an attorney and his client for malicious prosecution and abuse of process. At the conclusion of the proof the Trial Judge directed a verdict in favor of the client, Martha Carson, but allowed the case to go to a jury as to the attorney, Sidicane, and the jury found for the plaintiff against him, awarding a judgment of $3,000.00 compensatory and $8,500.00 punitive damages, from which...

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