Legal Opinion
Fireworks Restoration Co. v. Hosto
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided May 9, 2012No. ED 97181PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROY L. RICHTER, Judge.
Michael Hosto . (“Defendant”) appeals from the trial court’s judgment after a jury returned a verdict in favor of The Fireworks Restoration Company, LLC (“Plaintiff’) on its defamation claim and awarded Plaintiff $1 in actual damages and $150,000 in punitive damages. Finding no error, we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
The evidence, taken in the light most favorable to the verdict, shows that in 1999 Defendant and Peter Mitchell (“Mitchell”) co-founded Plaintiff, a property damage restoration company. The principal business function of Plaintiff was to respond on behalf of a…
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