Tookes v. Murray

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• holding that the issue of “punitive damages is generally a jury question, and a jury may award punitive damages even where the clear and convincing evidence only creates an inference of the defendant’s conscious indifference to the consequences of his acts”
• the determination of whether a tort was sufficiently aggravating to authorize punitive damages is generally a jury question

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