Stover v. Atchley

Banke, Presiding Judge.

The appellee sued the appellants (his grandson and the grandson’s wife) to recover damages for conversion and battery. Evidence was presented at trial from which it could be inferred that the appellants had converted the appellee’s funds to their own personal use after being entrusted with his financial affairs and, in addition, that the appellant grandson had violently attacked the appellee on one occasion. The jury awarded the appellee $32,700 as compensatory damages and $50,000 as punitive damages for the conversion, as well as $25,000 as compensatory damages and…