Legal Opinion
Baldwin v. Warwick
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 10, 1954No. 13531PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HEALY, Circuit Judge.
Federal jurisdiction in this case is asserted and conceded on diversity grounds. Appellee sued for damages alleging that appellants, pursuant to a conspiracy between them, had defrauded him of $4800 by a trick and device inducing amnesia in him by means of drugged drinks. In addition to a prayer for the recovery of that sum, he asked punitive damages in the amount of $100,000. The jury returned a verdict awarding him $54,500 of which it is clear that $4,500 was for actual and the rest for punitive damages. Appellants moved for a new trial, grounding their motion in part…
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