Ford Motor Credit Co. v. Johns

SPECTOR, Chief Judge.

Appellant seeks reversal of a judgment founded upon jury verdicts in favor of ap-pellee in the amount of $25,000 compensatory damages and $30,000 punitive damages in an action arising out of an assault perpetrated by an agent of appellant upon the appellee. For a full detail of the facts, see this Court’s earlier opinion in Johns v. Ford Motor Credit Company, Fla.App., 226 So.2d 403.

Appellant contends that the judgment for compensatory damages should be reversed on authority of Hutchins v. City of Hialeah, 196 So.2d 741 (Fla.1967), for the reason that following our…