Pruitt v. Pavelin
Court of Appeals of Arizona
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KLEINSCHMIDT, Judge.
This appeal arises out of the actions of a real estate salesperson who defrauded the seller of a restaurant by forging certain signatures on a sales contract and security documents. It presents a number of evi-dentiary and legal issues that we will discuss separately after we set forth the facts. The trial court found against the salesperson, Carole Pavelin, in the amount of $158,698.33 compensatory damages and $100,000 punitive damages. It found *198against Pavelin’s employer, C & A Realty, on a theory of respondeat superior for Pavelin’s fraudulent and willful…
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