Ulmer v. Bunner

ROBERTSON, Justice:

The Plaintiff, Carl A. Bunner, recovered a jury verdict in Hinds County Court against the Defendants, W. B. Ulmer and Jacobsen Manufacturing Company, for $2,137.79 actual and punitive damages growing out of an automobile collision on December 28, 1964. An appeal was prosecuted to the Circuit Court, and the judgment of the County Court was there affirmed. The original defendants thereupon perfected an appeal to this Court.

The principal contention of the defendants is that the lower court erred in submitting the question of awarding punitive damages to the jury. We agree that…