Jury Awards $1.4M Against Landlord for Stealing Tenant’s Cat

An alley cat has turned a person who was down on his luck right into a millionaire.

Joshua Smith simply snagged a $1.375 million verdict after a jury dominated his landlord catnapped Frank, his Cheshire cat.

The Oregon man discovered the stray again in 2017, and took him in at a drug restoration residential facility the place he was staying. Two years later, Frank turned up lacking, and Joshua knew … his landlord was the perpetrator. The landlord reportedly confessed and mentioned he gave Frank to his girlfriend to take to an area shelter.

He sued, and it took the jury lower than 2 hours to award the whopping verdict. Typically in these circumstances, the animal proprietor may solely get well the precise worth of the cat, which might be subsequent to nothing. Although info is not out there, it could seem the jury awarded punitive damages for willful misconduct.