Southern Missouri Bank v. Fogle

HOLSTEIN, Judge.

Southern Missouri Bank (the Bank) filed a three-count petition in replevin seeking possession of personal property and money damages resulting from Neil Fogle’s default on three separate notes, each of which was secured. Fogle filed a counterclaim seeking both actual and punitive damages for “wrongful replevin” of defendant’s property. The jury returned a verdict against the bank on each of its three claims and in favor of Fogle on his counterclaim, assessing actual damages in the sum of $80,000 and punitive damages in the sum of $65,000.

The trial court sustained the bank’s…