Love v. Deere and Co.

CLARK, Presiding Judge.

After plaintiffs, Marion and Wilma Love, had verdicts from a jury for actual and punitive damages aggregating $550,000, the trial judge ordered a new trial on the ground that the evidence had not warranted submission of a claim for punitive damages and the resultant verdicts had been so infected by the error that deletion of the punitive award could not expunge the prejudice to defendants. The appeal is from the new trial order. Affirmed.

Some clarification of issue formulation in terms of procedure in the case is appropriate at the outset of this opinion to set the…