CIRILLO, President Judge:
The issue presented to this Court is whether a jury's award of punitive damages must bear a reasonable relationship to the amount awarded as compensatory damages. Specifically, did the trial court err when it instructed the jury to the effect that no such relationship need exist?
The subject jury charge followed a trial initiated by the Kirkbrides, owners of property that is part of a wooded, thirty-acre...
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