O'HARA v. Ferguson MacK Truck Co.

BARROW, Justice.

This suit was filed by W. H. O’Hara to recover actual and exemplary damages from Ferguson Mack Truck Co., Inc., for wrongful sequestration of two truck-tractors. The jury verdict was favorable to O’Hara, and found damages in the amounts of $16,000 actual, and $73,500 exemplary. The trial court concluded that there was no evidence to support the jury’s finding that Ferguson Company acted maliciously in making the affidavit and procuring the writ of sequestration, and that there was no evidence to support the finding of exemplary damages. Judgment was therefore entered for…