Dewitt T. Warner v. Billups Eastern Petroleum Company and Hess Oil & Chemical Corporation

These appeals are from an order of the district court denying defendant’s motion for judgment n. o. v. and, alternatively, for a new trial. Having concluded from a review of the record that there is sufficient evidence to support the verdict of the jury and that the award of $35,-000 in damages, after the order of a remittitur by the district court, is, under the circumstances, not excessive, 1 ******we affirm.

This case involves a fairly atypical arrangement in the management of gasoline stations, whereby the defendant (“Hess”) 2 sublet the station site to plain tiff and conveyed to him all…