Burlington & Missouri River Railroad v. Shoemaker

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that, “though a breach of a duty under a contract or lease necessarily interferes with the injured party’s business relations with third parties, the injured party is limited to an action for breach of contract and may not recover in tort for business interference”
• court found that tortious activity for which a punitive damages award may be sustained occurred in only three of the four counts and that the tortious activity arose from a single animus, thus the defendant could only be punished by only a single punitive damages award

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).