Life Ins. Co. of Georgia v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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• summarizing the holding in Sellers v. Dickert, 194 Ala. 661, 69 So. 604 (1915)
• discussing circumstances under which award of nominal damages will support award of punitive damages
• Cook, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part, and quoting Black's Law Dictionary 348 (6th ed. 1990)
• “[A] jury’s verdict [must] specifically award either compensatory damages or nominal damages in order for an award of punitive damages to be upheld.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).