Court Opinion

ID: 9548722
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 18:07:52.877414+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:19:21.645612
License: Public Domain

CONCURRING OPINION OF
WIRTZ, J.
While I seriously doubt the advisability of the policy of allowing breach of promise actions in this day and age of feminine emancipation, I only too well realize that the determination of such policy is a legislative rather than a judicial function and until our legislature, as so many other state legislatures have done, directs otherwise, this court is bound by precedent. And while I find the amount of punitive damages awarded to be inequitable and harsh, still the evidence, in the light of the pertinent instructions given to the jury (none of which was challenged for error), permitted such a prohibitive award.
Consequently, I am reluctantly constrained to join in and concur with the opinion of the court.