Gulfco Finance Co. of Marksville, Inc. v. Estate of Guillory

How courts have described this case

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• ‘‘[p]uni- tive damages are not recoverable for breach of contract unless the conduct also amounts independently to a tort’’ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[P]unitive damages are not recoverable for breach of contract unless the conduct also amounts independently to a tort.”
• “there can be no non-contractual liability of the affiliated corporation...unless the plaintiff pleads and proves that the affiliate sought not to achieve permissible financial goals but sought maliciously or in bad faith to injure plaintiff
• “First, it is ‘rudimentary that a party to a contract cannot be liable both for breach of [a] contract and for inducing that breach.’” (quoting Shearin v. E.F. Hutton Gp., Inc., 652 A.2d 578, 590 (Del. Ch. 1994))
• setting out the elements of the tort under Delaware law
• setting out the elements of the tort under Delaware law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).