Cornell v. State

Appeal from an order of the Court of Claims, éntered on November 13, 1973, which granted claimant’s motion to amend his claim. The amended claim does not recite any new facts or injuries and raises no new causes of action, but contains an increase in the amount of damages claimed and separately states an amount claimed as punitive damages. Upon appeal, the State does not object to the action of the Court of Claims in permitting the amount of damages to be increased but limits its appeal to a contention that so much of the amended ad damnum clause as purports to request punitive damages should…