Commercial Credit Corp. v. Ensley

Defendant-appellant appeals from a judgment in favor of plaintiffs- appellees in an action for the malicious prosecution of attachment proceedings. The trial court, without a jury, awarded $75,500 compensatory damages and $35,000 punitive damages to plaintiffs-appellees.

It is the well-established law in Indiana that “ [t] he decision of the trial court comes to us clothed with the presumption that a correct result was reached and the burden is upon appellant * * * to overcome that presumption.” A.S.C. Corporation v. First Nat. Bank, etc., 241 Ind. 19, at 23, *153167 N. E. 2d 460 at 462…