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SEA-LAND SERVICE, INC. v. O'NEAL

Record No. 800856.

297 S.E.2d 647 (1982)

SEA-LAND SERVICE, INC. v. Nancy O'NEAL.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

December 3, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Ryan, Norfolk (Vandeventer, Black, Meredith & Martin, Norfolk, on briefs), for appellant.

William A. Young, Richmond (John F. Rixey, Norfolk, Alexander N. Simon, Richmond, Rixey & Heilig, Norfolk, Wallerstein, Goode & Dobbins, Richmond, on briefs), for appellee.

Before CARRICO, C.J., and COCHRAN, POFF, COMPTON, THOMPSON, STEPHENSON and RUSSELL, JJ.

CARRICO, Chief Justice.

In the court below, Nancy O'Neal (O'Neal) filed a motion for judgment seeking compensatory and punitive damages against Sea-Land Service, Inc. (Sea-Land), for its alleged breach of an employment contract and its alleged fraud in inducing O'Neal to resign from one position in return for a promise, never fulfilled, of employment in another. A jury awarded O'Neal $125,000 in compensatory damages but denied her any punitive award. Sea-Land has...

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