Kulakowski v. Cowart

THOMAS, Judge.

Joseph O. Kulakowski appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict awarding John Michael Cowart, Jr., and 130 St. Joseph Street, LLC (“the LLC”), compensatory damages in the amount of $22,400 and punitive damages in the amount of $10,600, on counterclaims of breach of contract, negligence, and conversion.1

The record reveals the following facts. In the spring of 2008, Cowart was developing a hotel in Mobile. He had acquired a long-term lease for a parcel of property on which stood a building known as the American National Bank Building (“the bank building”); Cowart’s plans…