Rogers Ex Rel. Rogers v. Florence Printing Co.

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• noting that the defendant “should not be heard to complain that the jury made its award without such [net worth] information, where he himself testified and did not offer it”
• explaining that punitive damages are appropriate only when a tortfeasor, at the time of his malfeasance, \would then have been conscious of it as an inva- sion of the plaintiff’s rights\ (emphasis added)
• punitive damages question is best left to the jury to “arrive at a fair award of such damages whether or not evidence be offered as to the defendant’s financial worth”
• The general test for the availability of punitive damages is whether, at the time of the act or omission, the tortfeasor was “conscious, or chargeable with consciousness, of his wrongdoing.”
• the jury may also consider the nature of the defendant’s wrongdoing
• Individual has standing to bring punitive damage claim rather than public; punitive damages are gauged or allocated as to the “willfulness” of a defendant and operate to punish the wrongdoer, and warn others

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).