Columbus Finance, Inc. v. Howard

Columbas Finance has not contested those portions of the trial court’s judgment denying recovery on the two cognovit notes and awarding the Howards compensatory damages for loss of use of their automobile. These matters are, therefore, not at issue in this appeal; that Columbus Finance wrongfully executed on the Howards’ automobile is established.* What is at issue is the availability, in an action for wrongful execution, of two *183categories of money damages: punitive damages and compensatory damages for mental suffering and humiliation. Since wrongful execution is a tort action, the resolution…