PER CURIAM.
This is an appeal from a final judgment in a defamation action. Appellants were found liable in damages to the plaintiff, an attorney, for defamatory remarks contained in a letter written by the husband and typed and mailed by the wife. Damages were assessed at $5,000 compensatory and $35,000 punitive.
Two points are raised on appeal: (1) excessiveness of the punitive damage award; and (2) the impropriety of the closing argument made by plaintiff...
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