D'ARBONNE CONST. CO., v. FOSTER

No. 02-1365.

123 S.W.3d 894 (2003)

D'ARBONNE CONSTRUCTION CO., INC., Caskey Terral, Terral Logging Company, Lee E. Johnson, Warner Canley v. Sylvia Leann FOSTER, Gus Culbreath, Randy Culbreath, Sherri Culbreath.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

October 9, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Huckabay, Munson, Rowlett & Tilley, P.A., by: Bruce Munson and Julia L. Busfield, Little Rock, for appellants.

Hamilton & Hamilton, by: James A. Hamilton, Hamburg, for appellee Sylvia Leann Foster.

Richard Byrd, Hamburg and; Holiman & Kennedy, by: Richard E. Holiman, Little Rock, for appellees Sherri, Gus & Randy Culbreath.


W.H. "DUB" ARNOLD, Chief Justice.

The sole issue in this personal injury/wrongful death case is whether an award of punitive damages should be upheld. We hold that there was substantial evidence to support the award of punitive damages, and affirm the judgment.

On November 9, 1999, Lee Earnest Johnson was driving a logging truck for appellant, D'Arbonne Construction Company, from Crossett east on Highway 82. A trailer was riding "piggy back" on the truck....

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