Horn v. Hallmark Cards, Inc.

PRITCHARD, Presiding Judge.

This is a service letter case, § 290.140, RSMo 1978, in which the jury returned a verdict for plaintiff for $1.00 actual damages and no punitive damages. The points presented assert error in the exclusion of evidence and denial of argument matters to the jury.

At the outset of the trial, by leave of court, plaintiff amended the second amended petition to reduce the prayer for actual damages to $1.00, and to increase the prayer for punitive damages from $50,000 to $250,000. It should be noted that in 1982, *85the service letter statute was amended to exclude punitive…