Birchwood Land Company, Inc. v. Ormond Bushey & Sons, Inc.

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• permitting punitive damages “when the breach has the character of a willful and wanton or fraudulent tort, and when the evidence indicates that the breaching party acted with actual malice” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• permitting punitive damages “when the breach has the character of a willful and wanton or fraudulent tort, and when the evidence indicates that the breaching party acted with actual malice” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• permitting recovery of punitive damages in breach of contract action ‘‘when the breach has the character of a [wilful] and wanton or fraudulent tort, and when the evidence indicates that the breaching party acted with actual malice’’ (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).