LOCAL MORTG. CO. OF GEORGIA v. POWELL

Nos. XX-401, XX-479.

420 So.2d 311 (1982)

LOCAL MORTGAGE COMPANY OF GEORGIA; Sterling Construction Company; George Pappas & Maureen Papas, Appellants, v. Susie Powell, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied October 26, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E.C. Deeno Kitchen and J. Lawrence Johnston, of Ervin, Varn, Jacobs, Odom & Kitchen, and William W. Corry, Tallahassee, for appellant Local Mortg. Co.

Bruce Culpepper, of Culpepper, Beatty & Turner, Tallahassee, for appellants Sterling Const. Co., George M. Pappas and Maureen Pappas.

Daniel S. Dearing, of Dearing & Smith, Tallahassee, for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

The appeal and cross appeal in this case are from a judgment for plaintiff in an action for fraud, forgery, and slander of title, entered on a jury verdict including punitive damages of $200,000.

A complaint was filed on behalf of Mrs. Powell in July 1975, and a jury trial was held on a second amended complaint in July 1980. The complaint alleged violations of the Federal Truth in Lending Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1601 et seq., the Florida Home Improvement...

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