Rhodes v. Beaver Finance Co.

This is an action for wrongful attachment in which the jury awarded plaintiffs $1,000 general damages and $2,500 punitive damages. Defendant appeals and assigns as error only the award of punitive damages.

Since the only question is whether there was evidence to support the award of punitive damages, we must consider the evidence in the light most favorable to plaintiffs. McCarthy v. General Electric Co., 151 Or 519, 520, 49 P2d 993, 100 ALR 1370 (1935); Pelton v. Gen. Motors Accept. Corp., 139 Or 198, 200, 7 P2d 263, 9 P2d 128 (1932).

There was evidence from which a jury could have found the…