Court Opinion

ID: 9567722
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 19:57:08.328766+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:20:32.927582
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Hunt, Justice,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent because I disagree with those portions of the opinion which conclude (I suppose as a matter of law) that the awards of punitive damages were to punish rather than deter. The absence of a discernible relationship between the amount of actual damages and the amount of punitive damages does not necessarily *658invalidate the latter. See Hosp. Auth. of Gwinnett County v. Jones, 259 Ga. 759, 762 (2), fn. 9 (386 SE2d 120) (1989).
Decided December 4, 1990 —
Reconsideration denied December 19, 1990.
Butler, Wooten, Overby & Cheeley, James E. Butler, Jr., for appellees.
Harmon, Owen, Saunders & Sweeney, H. Andrew Owen, Jr., David C. Will, Thomas L. Murphy, Benny Byrd, Jr., amici curiae.