General Motors Acceptance Corporation v. Edward B. Froelich

FAHY, Circuit Judge.

The questions are whether, in a jury trial for compensatory and punitive damages for the wrongful repossession of an automobile, resulting in recovery by plaintiff of $150 compensatory and $2,500 punitive damages, (1) prejudicial evidence was erroneously admitted and (2) the case was one for the jury on the issue of punitive damages. 1(1) The question of evidence turns on the reception over defendant’s objection of certain interoffice .memo-randa. We assume for present purposes that these memoranda were sufficiently privileged to bar their admissibility on the libel count…