General Motors Corp. v. Piskor

How courts have described this case

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• trespass arising from wrongful repossession of automobile by lienholder
• “[P]unitive damages may never be recovered in pure breach of contract suits …. There is, however, a class of actions that lies somewhere in the gray area separating pure torts from contract cases. These are the so-called ‘torts arising out contractual relationships.’”
• “[P]unitive damages may never be recovered in pure breach of contract suits …. There is, however, a class of actions that lies somewhere in the gray area separating pure torts from contract cases. These are the so-called ‘torts arising out contractual relationships.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).