Reed v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., Inc.

WORKMAN, Justice:

This case is before the Court upon the appeals of both James H. Reed and Sears, Roebuck & Company (hereinafter referred to as Sears) from the Circuit Court of Wood County. The Plaintiff, Mr. Reed, appeals from a denial by the trial court of a request to instruct the jury during trial on punitive damages and assigns as error the lower court’s ruling that punitive damages were not recoverable in this case. 1 On March 7, 1991, the jury returned a verdict in favor of the Plaintiff on the issue of retaliatory discharge and awarded him damages for lost wages in the amount of…