Cantrell v. Bank of Poplar Bluff

CROW, Presiding Judge.

A jury awarded Oscar Cantrell and Leona Cantrell (“plaintiffs”) $25,000 actual damages and $25,000 punitive damages against the Bank of Poplar Bluff (“the Bank”). Judgment was correspondingly entered. The Bank appeals.

The suit arose from the sale of a tract of real estate by the Bank to plaintiffs for $56,000. Plaintiffs alleged that the Bank’s vice president and loan officer, Danny Stucker, who handled the transaction for the Bank, had represented to them that the north boundary of the tract lay some 100 feet north of the rear of a dwelling house situated on the tract.…