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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ORKIN EXTERMINATING COMPANY, INC., Appellant, v. Charles R. CLAY and Linda K. Clay, his wife, Ronald Dale Yost and Erna Yost, his wife, and Jacksonville National Bank, a national banking corp., Appellees.
    Nos. 80-1479, 80-1480.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
    Aug. 26, 1981.
    Rehearing Denied Oct. 15, 1981.
    J. Lester Kaney of Cobb & Cole, Daytona Beach, for appellant.
    
      J. David McFadden, Daytona Beach, for appellees Charles R. Clay and Linda K. Clay, his wife.
    James H. Post of Smith, Hulsey, Schwalbe & Nichols, Jacksonville, for appel-lee, Jacksonville National Bank.
    No appearance for appellee Yost.
   PER CURIAM.

That portion of the judgment which awards punitive damages is reversed and this cause is remanded for a new trial under the dictates of the law established in Mercury Motors Express, Inc. v. Smith, 393 So.2d 545 (Fla.1981).

AFFIRMED IN PART; REVERSED IN PART AND REMANDED.

DAUKSCH, C. J., and SHARP and CO-WART, JJ., concur.