Gowin v. Heider

This is an appeal by the defendants from an adverse judgment based on the verdict of a jury in a ease involving three causes of action, one for malicious prosecution, the other two for conversion. The judgment was as follows: On the first cause of action, malicious prosecution, $36,000; on the second cause of action, conversion, $2,000; on the third cause of action, conversion, $7,000. Besides these sums, the jury in-*271eluded in their verdict punitive damages on the first and third causes of action, but these items were removed by the court on defendants’ motion for judgment n.o.v. Trial of the…