Smith v. Renaut

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that conduct must be beyond the fraud which supported compensatory damages to award punitive damages
• “while a concealment may constitute fraud, mere silence is not sufficient in the absence of a duty to speak.”
• Reliance is not justifiable where the truth could be ascertained with common prudence or diligence.
• “If the rule were otherwise, punitive damages could be awarded in all fraud cases. This is not the law.”
• “[T]he same fraud is not alone a sufficient basis upon which to premise an award of punitive damages.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).