Legal Opinion
Chesterton State Bank v. Coffey
Indiana Court of Appeals
Decided October 4, 1983No. 4-1082A323PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MILLER, Judge.
Chesterton State Bank, defendant-appellant, disputes a jury verdict, which awarded $23,000 to plaintiffs George and Rosemarie Coffey for conversion ($8,000) and for punitive damages ($15,000) when the Bank repossessed their automobile. The Bank asserts this judgment is in error because the Coffeys' tender of the amount due on their automobile loan was defective. We find the Bank's issues do not merit reversing the trial court and affirm the judgment below.
ISSUES
Minimally paraphrased, the Bank poses the following:
1. Did the Coffeys meet the requirements of a valid tender of full…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Platter v. Board of CommissionersIndiana Supreme Court · 1885
- Universal CIT Credit Corporation v. SheplerIndiana Court of Appeals · 1975
- Schaeffer v. ColdrenSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1912
- Commonwealth v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1926
- Rohrof v. SchulteIndiana Supreme Court · 1899
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3Cited by11 opinions
- In re ClarkCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1984
- 10 Collier bankr.cas.2d 1280, Bankr. L. Rep. P 69,929 in the Matter of Hugh R. Clark and Joanne Clark, Debtors-Appellants. Federal Land Bank of St. PaulCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1984
- Slowinski v. Valley Nat. BankNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1993
- Autocephalous Greek-Orthodox Church of Cyprus v. Goldberg & Feldman Fine Arts, Inc.District Court, S.D. Indiana · 1989
- Maddox v. WrightIndiana Court of Appeals · 1986
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