Dotson v. Ford Motor Co.

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting defendant’s argument that an increase in plaintiff’s ad damnum clause from $3,000,000 to $10,000,000 six weeks before trial “unfairly prejudiced” defendant because it had been “proceeding on a theory that the plaintiff’s damages were capped by the amount of the ad damnum”
• “The complaint need not set forth the amount of general compensatory damages sought, and even if it does, the amount of the verdict may exceed the amount demanded in the complaint.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).