In Building Structures , the jury returned a special verdict in which it awarded the plaintiff punitive damages but no general damages. However, the defendant waived any objection otherwise available on those grounds by choosing to make a legal argument before the trial court rather than submitting the matter to the jury for clarification. Return to previous location . Based on the amount of raw material on the property, defendant believed that he would generate that level of revenue for five or six years. Return to previous location .
Plaintiffs also argue that our initial description of the trial court's ruling was incorrect.
The trial court ruled that the two damage awards duplicated each other and subtracted one from the other. App at 54. We agree with plaintiffs that the court did not subtract one award from the other. As we later explained in the course of analyzing the court's ruling, the court subtracted the larger of the two awards from the amount that plaintiffs recovered in their foreclosure claim. We modify the quoted statement accordingly.