Foster v. Keating

WOOD (Fred B.), J.

The defendant, A. G. Keating, has appealed from a judgment which awards the plaintiff, Harry E. Foster, $31,440 as compensatory or general damages and $9,500 as exemplary damages.

The judgment is based upon findings of fact which may be summarized as follows:

I. Commencing November, 1949, plaintiff owned a lumber yard and planing mill at Fulton, owned and conducted a sawmill business as sublessee of a sawmill near Cazadero, California, and had a timber contract relative to timber on the sawmill property. By the middle of April, 1950, he had invested more than $8,000 in the…