Mid-Continent Refrigerator Co. v. Straka

Three issues have been presented by the parties:

1. Did the trial court err in not submitting a question in the verdict as to punitive damages ?

2. Did the trial court err in restricting the testimony of the defendant Straka as to the damages he sustained?

3. Did the trial court abuse its discretion in refusing to award costs to plaintiff and in awarding them to the defendant?

The plaintiff, Mid-Continent, accepts the jury finding-in the circuit court that its sales representative fraudulently represented to Straka that the display freezer he was leasing was an automatic defrosting unit which in…