Feinberg v. George Washington Cemetery, Inc.

Five appellants severally appeal from judgments entered upon jury verdicts against them for compensatory damages in the sum of $117,126.00, and punitive damages in varying amounts. A remittitur was ordered and filed, reducing the amounts of punitive damages. The declaration, in effect, alleged an unlawful conspiracy by the operators of competing cemetery companies, and their attorneys and agents, to wreck the business of the appellees; that pursuant thereto, and by means of a purported forfeiture of the pledged capital stock of the appellees owned by one Houser, the appellants ousted the…