Ace Title Loan, Inc. v. Crump

PARKER, Justice.

Ace Title Loan, Inc. (“Ace”), appeals from a judgment of the Mobile Circuit Court awarding the plaintiffs, James Michael Crump and Crump’s bankruptcy trustee, Denise Littleton (hereinafter referred to collectively as “Crump”), $50,000 in compensatory damages and $25,000 in punitive damages. The judgment was based on an arbitration award on James’s assault-and-battery claim against Ace based on the action of Ace’s repossession agents. Ace challenges the arbitrator’s findings and the award, asserting that the arbitrator ignored Ace’s valid defense of judicial estoppel and that…