Case Name: 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
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1981-08-26
Citations: 404 So. 2d 755
Docket Number: Nos. 80-1479, 80-1480
Parties: 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.
Judges: DAUKSCH, C. J., and SHARP and CO-WART, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 404
Pages: 755–756

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.