Hoene v. Associated Dry Goods Corporation

HENRY I. EAGER, Special Commissioner.

In this action for malicious prosecution plaintiff recovered a verdict of $500 actual damages and $20,000 puriitive damages. Defendant duly appealed. The notice of appeal was filed here before the effective date of the amendment increasing the jurisdiction of the Courts of Appeal to $30,000, Laws 1969, 3rd Ex.Sess., p. 110, § 1; and, of course, it was filed prior to the Amendment of our Judicial Article, effective January 1, 1972. We have jurisdiction:

Defendant insists that a verdict should have been directed for it, so we shall need to relate the evidence…