Grandi v. LeSage

CHAVEZ, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment ordering a rescission of plaintiffs’ claim to a race horse and awarding, jointly and severally, compensatory and punitive damages.

On July 3, 1962, Henry Grandi and Kathryn Grandi, his wife, filed a complaint in two counts against defendants, R. S. LeSage and H. R. Claggett, which alleged, in the first count, that on January 6, 1962, defendant LeSage, as owner, and defendant Claggett, as his agent, employee and horse trainer, entered a race horse named “Cur-Non” in a claiming race with a claiming price of $3,500 at Sunland Park Race Track,…