Ress v. Rediess

How courts have described this case

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• finding that when judgment for actual damages is extinguished, the basis upon which exemplary damage could rest is likewise extinguished
• some amount must be awarded as actual damages, even if nominal in amount, to permit recovery of punitive damages
• “To justify a recovery of exemplary damages, the act causing the injuries must be done with an evil intent and with the purpose of injuring the plaintiff____”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).