Precision Investments, L.L.C. v. Cornerstone Propane, L.P.

This appeal is from the trial court’s judgment, following bench trial, awarding compensatory and punitive damages pursuant to the plaintiffs’ claims of trespass, ejectment, and unjust enrichment concerning eleven parcels of real estate located in Missouri, Indiana, and Alabama. The defendant, Cornerstone Propane, L.P. (“Cornerstone”), raises six points on appeal, assigning error concerning the measure of damages utilized by the trial court in making its compensatory damage award for trespass, the propriety and the amount of the punitive damage award, and the appropriateness of the trial…