Sidney J. Brown v. James R. Coates, Marion E. Coates, and Margaret E. Brown

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• holding punitive damages to be appropriate in a case involving a malevolent real-estate agent
• “[I]n certain, narrowly defined circumstances, where a breach of contract merges with, and assumes the character of, a willful tort, calculated rather than inadvertent, flagrant, and in disregard of obligations of trust punitive damages may be assessed.” (emphasis added)
• breach of trust by broker acting as agent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).