Court Opinion

ID: 3878560
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 09:10:47.667869+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:41:50.446121
License: Public Domain

If the defendant had requested his Honor, the presiding Judge, to charge that the plaintiff could not recover punitive damages, if his injury was due solely to his own fault, quite a different proposition would have been submitted.
The defense of contributory negligence presupposes that the party injured was at fault, yet it cannot be interposed against a cause of action for punitive damages.
In any event, there should not be a new trial, as to both causes of action, for the reason that the request was charged as to the cause of action for actual damages. For these reasons I dissent.
MR. JUSTICE GAGE. having presided at the trial on the circuit, took no part in the consideration of this case. *Page 465