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These are cross-appeals by Paul and Betty English, on the one hand, and Ralph Williams Ford, a corporation, on the other, from a judgment awarding the Englishes $704 in general and punitive damages against Ralph Williams Ford and denying them any recovery against Gateway National Bank and Key Auto Recovery, Inc. The bank was, however, awarded judgment against the Englishes in the principal amount of $2,172.77 and attorney’s fees in the amount of $500.

This litigation was occasioned by a used car dealer, known as Intercontinental Auto Imports, Inc., giving a worthless draft to Ralph Williams Ford for a new 1967 Country Squire Station Wagon and Ralph Williams Ford, a new car dealer, then identifying itself as the legal owner of the vehicle on its application for the vehicle’s registration in the names of the Englishes and later repossessing the vehicle through the services of Key Auto Recovery, Inc. and thereafter reselling it. The bank financed the purchase of the vehicle by the Englishes from Intercontinental and the award to it represents the balance due on the secured installment promissory note the Englishes gave for the bank’s loan to them of $2,700.

We reverse for…