Legal Opinion
Dumas v. Stocker
California Court of Appeal
Decided September 11, 1989No. D006363PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
FROEHLICH, J.
Walter Stocker, defendant in a personal injury suit filed by George Dumas, appeals from a judgment, after jury trial, awarding Dumas $47,000 general damages and $141,000 punitive damages.
1. Factual Background
On January 1, 1981, Dumas and a friend, Irvin Moultrie, went to visit a friend living at an apartment building owned by Stocker. While making his way to the friend’s apartment, Dumas fell through a hole in the walkway and immediately felt pain. Moultrie and a third person pulled Dumas from the hole, and drove Dumas back to Moultrie’s home to pick up Dumas’s girlfriend.…
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