De Anza Santa Cruz Mobile Estates Homeowners Ass'n v. De Anza Santa Cruz Mobile Estates

Opinion

BAMATTRE-MANOUKIAN, Acting P. J.

In this action by a mobile-home homeowners association against the owners of the mobilehome park, a jury awarded punitive damages in the amount of $6 million after the trial court instructed the jury that it was “an established fact” that defendants had violated Civil Code section 798.41, 1 causing actual damages of $36,401.85, which had already been paid. The trial court subsequently awarded plaintiff attorney’s fees pursuant to Civil Code section 798.85, 2 in the amount of $700,000. On appeal defendants raise the following arguments:

1) The superior…