Liberty Loan Corporation of Antioch v. Brown

SWOFFORD, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the court below granting the defendant a new trial on the issues raised by her counterclaim. The parties will be referred to herein as “Loan Company” and “Rieke”. The case arose in the Magistrate Court in an action brought by the Loan Company on a promissory note signed by Rieke and her former husband, Brown, upon which there was an unpaid balance due.

The defendant therein, Rieke, filed a counterclaim for $10,000 actual and $10,000 punitive damages, claiming that the Loan Company had invaded her right of privacy and unnecessarily harassed her…