SELIMOS v. CHRIST

DAMAGES, § 267 — exemplary damages, award as disproportionate to actual damages. Jury award for exemplary damages of almost seven times amount of loss alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff was so disproportionate thereto as to require reversal of judgment, in tort action charging obtention of satisfaction of judgment for less than amount due by means of fraudulent conspiracy, wherein plaintiff requested exemplary damages on theory that he had been put to considerable expense in collecting that judgment.

Opinion by JUSTICE FRIEND.

Not to be published in full. Opinion filed May 20, 1947; rehearing denied June 4, 1947; released for publication June 9, 1947.