Knickerbocker Fine Cars, Inc. v. Peterson

MILLEDGE, STANLEY, Associate Judge.

The original defendant appeals from a judgment of the Civil Court of Record of Dade County, based on a jury verdict of ’$1,440 compensatory and $1,000 punitive ■damages, for the conversion of an automobile. The defendant, by self help, took possession of a car which the plaintiff contended he bought from the defendant, by means which induced the jury to award punitive damages, an aspect of the case which does not concern us. The point insisted on by the defendant is that the instrument relied on by plaintiff as a bill of sale was in reality nothing but an…