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WAGMAN v. LEE

No. 81-768.

457 A.2d 401 (1983)

Arthur M. WAGMAN, Appellant, v. Debra F.J. LEE, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided February 23, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan B. Moldawer, Springfield, Mass., was on the brief for appellant.

John W. Karr, Washington, D.C., was on the brief for appellee.

Before KELLY and TERRY, Associate Judges, and GALLAGHER, Associate Judge, Retired.

GALLAGHER, Associate Judge, Retired:

A jury awarded appellee $4,000 compensatory and $15,000 punitive damages for appellant's breach of fiduciary duty. Appellant argues that as escrow agent his legal relationship with depositor appellee is contractual, not fiduciary; alternatively, he contends that his conduct was insufficiently egregious to justify imposition of punitive damages. We affirm.1

In late 1974, appellant, an attorney...

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