Hawkins v. Hawkins

GREENE, Judge.

Defendant appeals from the entry of a jury verdict awarding $25,000.00 in punitive damages to the plaintiff.

In her complaint the plaintiff seeks damages, compensatory and punitive, which she contends were the result of the defendant’s assaults and batteries upon the plaintiff. The uncontradicted evidence at trial tended to show that the plaintiff was the adopted daughter of the defendant and that between plaintiff’s ages of five and one-half years to fourteen years, the defendant sexually abused the plaintiff.

The following issues were submitted to and answered by the jury:

1. Did…