Coats v. General Motors Corp.

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment on a verdict awarding $148,980.06 to the plaintiff in an action for the value of stock claimed to have been wrongfully withheld. The ease was twice tried. The first trial resulted in a directed verdict. From the judgment entered thereon both parties appealed. That judgment was reversed on the ground that the evidence and the inferences fairly to be drawn therefrom required the factual issues to be decided by the jury. (Coats v. General Motors Corp., 3 Cal. App. (2d) 340 [39 Pac. (2d) 838].) The issues of fact were submitted to the jury on the…