Keith v. Murfreesboro Livestock Market, Inc.

OPINION

KOCH, Judge.

This appeal involves a dispute arising from the sale of cattle through a livestock market in Murfreesboro. The executrix of the cattle owners’ estates filed an action in the Circuit Court for Rutherford County alleging that the market’s owner committed fraud by replacing her decedents’ cattle with inferior stock before they were sold. The jury awarded the estates $3,000 in compensatory and $40,000 in punitive damages, and the livestock market and its owner have appealed. We affirm the judgment.

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