Halliburton-Arbott Co. v. Hodge

The plaintiff, Daisy Hodge, sued the Halliburton-Abbott Company, a corporation operating a department store in Tulsa,- to recover damages on account of false imprisonment. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff for $1,000 actual damages and $3,000 exemplary damages. Upon consideration of defendant’s motion for new trial, the court ordered that a new trial should be had unless plaintiff should remit half of 'the punitive damages, whereupon plaintiff filed her remittitur of $1,-500. Judgment was then rendered for $1,-000 actual damages and $1,500 punitive damages, motion for new trial was…