Behrendt v. Times Mirror Co.

—This is an action for damages for libel. A jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff in the sum of $10,000 as compensatory damages and the further sum of $1,5,000 as punitive damages and judgment was accordingly entered. Thereafter upon motion for a new trial the trial court made an order that a new trial would be granted unless plaintiff should reduce “the judgment entered to the sum of $10,000 and costs, the amount of the compensatory damages awarded’’. In accordance with the conditional order of the court plaintiff remitted that part of the judgment over and above the sum of $10,000…