Associated Telephone Directory Publishers, Inc. v. Five D'S Publishing Co.

BEA ANN SMITH, Justice.

Associated Telephone Directory Publishers, Inc. and Maurice Lewis, president of ATD (collectively “ATD”), appeal from a district-court judgment awarding damages to Five D’s Publishing Co., Inc. (“Five D’s”), for unfair competition and for conversion of telephone directories that were the subject of a prior transaction between the parties. Following a bench trial, the court rendered judgment against ATD and Lewis jointly and severally, and awarded Five D’s actual damages of $71,000, prejudgment interest at a rate of ten percent per annum compounded daily, and…