Stoll Oil Refining Company v. Pierce

STANLEY, Commissioner.

The appeal is from a judgment for $5,000 nominal and punitive damages (without separation) for having wrongfully caused the ejectment of the plaintiff, now appellee, Vester E. Pierce, from a gasoline service station in Greensburg, which he had under lease from the defendant, now appellant, Stoll Oil Refining Company.

The complaint stated that the plaintiff was in possession of the property, and that on or about November 23, 1955, the defendant, through its agent “and otherwise, wrongfully entered and ejected the plaintiff and took possession of the property.”

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