AMERICAN MOTORS CORP. v. ELLIS

Nos. 80-767, 80-770, 80-1025 and 80-1026.

403 So.2d 459 (1981)

AMERICAN MOTORS CORPORATION, Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. William Howard ELLIS, Jr., and William J. St. John, Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied September 15, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Tribble of Blackwell, Walker, Gray, Powers, Flick & Hoehl, Miami, and Sanders, McEwan, Mims & McDonald, Orlando, for appellant/cross-appellee.

David B. King of Peed & King, P.A., Orlando, for appellees/cross-appellants.


COBB, Judge.

American Motors Corporation (AMC), defendant below, appeals from judgments in favor of plaintiffs Ellis and St. John, entered pursuant to jury verdicts. Ellis and St. John have cross-appealed from a directed verdict in favor of AMC on the issue of punitive damages and on various evidentiary rulings made during trial.

On December 10, 1976, Ellis was driving his father's 1974 AMC Ambassador east in the righthand lane of Interstate Highway 4 in Orange...

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