Murphy v. Stowe Club Highlands

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• holding that determining the amount of attorney fees due under a contract involves equitable accounting
• referring to another case where “the plaintiff’s president received a substantial capital contribution to the corporation and intentionally failed to disclose it to defendant”
• noting the rule that punitive damages are generally not available in breach of contract action except where nonbreaching party shows tort-like conduct and actual malice on the part of breaching party
• distinguishing (even while recognizing that there is no bright constitutional line
• striking punitive award where, even if developer’s breach of contract deemed malicious, “malice alone is not sufficient to support an award of punitive damages in a breach of contract case” when contractor’s failure to perform not “akin to a willful and wanton, or fraudulent, tort”
• “defendants sought a judgment as a matter of law on the punitive damages issue in compliance with VR.C.E 50(a), and renewed then' motion after entry of judgment as required by Rule 50(b

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