Maddix v. Gammon

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Cammack

Affinning

This is an appeal from a judgment on a verdict awarding the appellee, Mrs. Anna Gammon, $100 as actual damages and $400 as punitive damages on the charge that the appellants, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Maddix, forcibly ejected her and her two children from their home. The appellants insist that (1) they were entitled to a peremptory instruction; (2) the evidence does not sustain,the verdict for compensatory damages; (3) there should have been no instruction for punitive damages; and (4) the verdict strikes the mind at first blush as being one resulting from…