Hutchins v. City of Hialeah

THOMAS, Acting Chief Justice.

The original trial had culminated in a verdict against the individual defendant, O. Harris, in the amount of $1,227.25 compensatory damages and $5,000 punitive damages, .and also a verdict against the City of Hialeah in the sum of $32,627.25 compensatory damages, stated in three separate verdicts. In a fourth verdict the jury found for the defendant-city on the issue whether or not punitive damages should be assessed against it. The action had grown out of an assault and battery upon the present petitioner by respondent Harris while in the employ of…