Stein v. Lukas

Robert L. Brown, Justice.

This appeal arises from a jury verdict in favor of the appellant, John H. Stein, in the amount of $5,700. That amount represented damages to the appellant resulting from a flue fire caused by a wood-burning stove. The core of the appellant’s appeal is the circuit court’s refusal to submit the issue of punitive damages to the jury. The appellant asserts that this was error. The appellees, Bob Lukas and Buck Stove of Arkansas, Incorporated, cross-appeal on the basis that the circuit court impermissibly allowed evidence of the appellees’ financial worth to be presented…