Shell Oil Co. v. Parker

The appellant, Shell Oil Company, defendant below (Shell), challenges a judgment entered upon a jury’s verdict for $1.00 nominal damages and for $75,000.00 punitive damages in the Circuit Court for Queen Anne’s County (Turner, J.), contending that the appellees, Milton and Frank Parker, plaintiffs below, (1) failed to give timely written notice of their claim within the terms of the written contract between Shell and the Parkers; (2) the action was barred by the three year Statute of Limitations; (3) the jury should not have been allowed to consider punitive damages in the absence of actual…