STATE OF FLORIDA EX REL. MAX SILVERMAN,

v.

D. C. COLEMAN, AS SHERIFF OF DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA

Citator

Cited By (41 total)

• Griffith v. Shamrock Vill., Inc., 94 So. 2d 854 (Fla. 1957)
  …defined gross negligence as the want of slight care. This Court has held that allowance of punitive damages is dependent on a showing of malice, moral turpitude, wantonness or outrageousness of tort. Dr. P. Phillips & Sons, Inc., v. Kilgore, 1943, 152 Fla. 578, 12 So. 2d 465; Ross v. Gore, Fla.1950, 48 So. 2d 412. Plaintiff did not allege nor prove that defendant acted or failed to act from malice or wilfully. He argues that malice is imputed to defendant because of the entire want of care or attention t…
• First Interstate Dev. Corp. v. Ablanedo, 511 So. 2d 536 (Fla. 1987)
  …unitive damages award must be the same as that required to support a conviction for a criminal act and that this type of additional circumstance of aggravation must be present to justify a punitive damage claim. In Dr. P. Phillips & Sons v. Kilgore, 152 Fla. 578, 12 So. 2d 465 (1943), we held: Punitive or exemplary damages is an amount allowed over and above actual or compensatory damages. Its allowance depends on malice, moral turpitude, wantonness, or the outrageousness of the tort and is awarded as a de…
• Campbell v. Gov't Emps. Ins. Co., 306 So. 2d 525 (Fla. 1974)
  …ptr. 678. In Buie v. Barnett First National Bank of Jacksonville, supra, this Court following principles of law announced in Winn & [*532] Lovett Grocery Co. v. Archer (1936), 126 Fla. 308, 171 So. 214, and Dr. P. Phillips & Sons v. Kilgore (1943), 152 Fla. 578, 12 So. 2d 465, reversed the First District Court of Appeal. We there quoted from the Kilgore case as follows: “ ‘Punitive or exemplary damages is an amount allowed over and above actual or compensatory damages. Its allowance depends on malice, mor…

Authorities Cited

• Harrison S. Trent v. McLeod, 131 Fla. 617 (Fla. 1938)