FD Borkholder Co., Inc. v. Sandock

HUNTER, Justice.

This case is before this Court upon the petition to transfer of plaintiffs-appellees B. & S. Sandock, Inc., et al. The trial court awarded the plaintiffs compensatory and punitive damages arising out of a breach of contract by the defendant-appellant F. D. Borkholder Company, Inc. The Court of Appeals, Third District, affirmed the award of compensatory damages but reversed the punitive damages award in an opinion authored by Judge Staton. Sandock v. F. D. Borkholder Co., (1979) Ind.App., 396 N.E.2d 955. Judge Garrard dissented from the majority’s treatment of the punitive…