EQUICO LESSORS, INC. v. MARUKA MACH. CORP.

No. 87-224.

523 So.2d 665 (1988)

EQUICO LESSORS, Inc., Appellant, v. MARUKA MACHINERY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

As Corrected on Denial of Rehearing April 21, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Boykin of Boose, Casey, Ciklin, Lubitz, Martens, McBane & O'Connell, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Mercer K. Clarke and James C. Polkinghorn of Kelley, Drye & Warren, Miami, for appellee.


COBB, Judge.

The appellant, Equico Lessors, Inc. (Equico), sued Maruka Machinery Corporation of America (Maruka) for conversion and punitive damages. The issue on this appeal is whether the trial court erred in granting Maruka's motion for a directed verdict at the conclusion of the evidence presented at trial.

Given the directed verdict against Equico, we must view the facts adduced at trial in the light most favorable to it, as the jury would have been entitled...

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