Baker v. Bickel

HYDE, Presiding Judge.

Action for damages for false representation in which plaintiff sought both actual and punitive damages. Plaintiff had verdict and judgment for $18,500 and defendant has appealed.

Plaintiff and defendant were friends in high school around 1940 and remained friendly seeing each other occasionally thereafter. In November 1957, after five years’ employment as a general supervisor with General Motors, plaintiff left to come back to Kansas City. He went to see defendant and was offered a position in his business of organizing and operating health studios in which memberships…