RABREN v. STRAIGIS

No. 85-2849.

498 So.2d 1362 (1986)

David RABREN, Appellant, v. V.W. STRAIGIS, B.F. Wiltshire, Walter N. Egan, John B. Schiffmacher, Earl G. Evans, Robert F. Park, Harry J. Williams, Thomas A. Baggett, J.J. O'Connell, James Gallagher, Lambert M. Ware, Fred F. Enno, Jr., Cyrus Epler, H. Eugene Knight, Gary Maddox, George H. McDonald, Frederick D. Smith, and G. Douglas Ferguson, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

December 17, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory G. Jones and Christopher L. Griffin of Carlton, Fields, Ward, Emmanuel, Smith & Cutler, P.A., Tampa, for appellant.

Mike Piscitelli and C. Steven Yerrid of Stagg, Hardy & Yerrid, P.A., Tampa, for appellees.


LEHAN, Judge.

Defendant in this defamation suit appeals a final judgment for plaintiff which, pursuant to a jury verdict, awarded compensatory damages of $1.00 to each of the eighteen individual plaintiffs, punitive damages of $10,000 each to fifteen of the individual plaintiffs, and punitive damages of $1.00 to the remaining three plaintiffs for a total damage award of $150,021.

As his first point on appeal, defendant contends that the trial court erred in...

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