King v. McGuff

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• stating that an award of interest from the date of the fire to the date of judgment should have been allowed instead of damages for lost use
• holding, under the common-law predecessor to Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code section 41.005, that section 909 of the Restatement of Torts expresses Texas's prevailing rule governing a principal's liability for punitive damages based on the agent's wrongdoing
• holding, under the common-law predecessor to Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code section 41.005, that section 909 of the Restatement of Torts expresses Texas’s prevailing rule governing a principal’s liability for punitive damages based on the agent’s wrongdoing
• discussing Hutton, 58 S.W.2d 19, and concluding that the owners of a tortiously injured house were not entitled to damages for lost use based on rental value
• punitive damages for negligent hiring recoverable if agent was unfit and the principal was reckless in employing him
• punitive damages for negligent hiring recoverable if agent was unfit and the principal was reckless in employing him

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