DiPietro v. Boynton

How courts have described this case

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• discussing independent effects of separate contracts as contrasted with the principle whereby terms in multiple contracts are generally interpreted similarly when signed by the same parties at the same time
• “Punitive damages . . . will lie only when the plaintiff receives compensatory or actual damages based on the defendant’s tortious conduct.”
• “Punitive damages . . . will lie only when the plaintiff receives compensatory or actual damages based on the defendant’s tortious conduct.”
• Plaintiffs “failed to generate any issue that [Defendant’s attorney] had not acted solely as an advocate for [the defendant]
• “[W]here several instruments are made part of one transaction, they will be read together and each will be construed with reference to the others, although the instruments do not in terms refer to each other.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).