RALPH E. BIDWELL, APPELLANT,

v.

GEORGE WESLEY CARSTENS, JR., ET AL., APPELLEES

Citator

Cited By

• Country Manors Ass'n, Inc. v. Master Antenna Sys., Inc., 534 So. 2d 1187 (Fla. 4th DCA 1988)
  …(Fla.1986); St. John v. Kuper, 489 So. 2d 833 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986); Auto-Owners Insurance Co. v. Hooks, 463 So. 2d 468 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985); Henderson v. Petri, 365 So. 2d 792 (Fla. 1st DCA 1978), cert. denied, 376 So. 2d 75 (Fla.1979); Brock v. Maine, 293 So. 2d 375 (Fla. 4th DCA), cert. denied, 297 So. 2d 837 (Fla.1974); General Finance Corporation of Jacksonville, Inc. v. Sexton, 155 So. 2d 159 (Fla. 1st DCA 1963). See also Chrysler Corp. v. Wolmer, 499 So. 2d 823 (Fla.1986). With respect to compensatory dam…
• Int'l Union OF Operating Eng'rs v. Lassitter, 295 So. 2d 634 (Fla. 4th DCA 1974)
  …uld not necessarily serve as punishment to one of large means.” Thus, taking into account all considerations, the pecuniary worth of a defendant charged with possible punitive damages must be adduced as evidence before the jury. See Brock v. Maine, 293 So. 2d 375 (4th D.C.A.Fla.1974); Joab, Inc. v. Thrall, supra; Jacksonville Frosted Foods, Inc. v. Haigler, 224 So. 2d 437 (1st D.C.A.Fla.1969). Was this done here? The evidence given of defendants’ finances was as follows: International Income of $600,000 pe…
• Ocean Mile Galleries, Inc. v. Huguenor, 305 So. 2d 787 (Fla. 4th DCA 1974)
  …there must be sufficient proof of a defendant’s financial resources so as to create a basis in the record for the jury to make an award of punitive damages and so that the propriety thereof might be reviewed. See also, Brock v. Maine, Fla.App.1974, 293 So. 2d 375. But see Aaron v. Rinaldi, Fla.App.1974, 296 So. 2d 632. Accordingly, upon authority of our decisions in the International Union and Brock cases, which incidentally the trial judge did not have the benefit of when he entered this judgment under rev…

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• Chandler Leasing Div. v. Florida-Vanderbilt Dev. Corp., 464 F.2d 267 (5th Cir. 1972)