SHV COAL v. CONTINENTAL GRAIN CO.


526 Pa. 489 (1991)

587 A.2d 702

SHV COAL, INC., Appellant, v. CONTINENTAL GRAIN CO., and Conticoal, a/k/a Conticoal Co., Conticoal, Inc., and Conticarriers & Terminals, Inc., and R. Stephen Kasey, Appellees. SHV COAL, INC., Appellant, v. Ralph L. WINGROVE, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided March 12, 1991.

Reargument Denied May 24, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert D. Douglass, William H. Blessing, pro hac vice, Cincinnati, Ohio, for appellant.

Errol S. Miller, Pittsburgh, for Continental Grain Co., and Conticoal a/k/a Conticoal Co., Conticoal, Inc. and Conticarriers & Terminals, Inc. and Ralph L. Wingrove.

Myron H. Tomb, Jr., Indiana, for Stephen Kasey and Ralph L. Wingrove.

Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, ZAPPALA, PAPADAKOS and CAPPY, JJ.


OPINION

ZAPPALA, Justice.

We granted the appellant's consolidated Petition for Allowance of Appeal limited to the issue of punitive damages. Specifically, appellant seeks our review of the order and opinion of the Superior Court which, in part, reversed the trial court which had assessed punitive damages against both Wingrove and ContiCoal. 376 Pa.Super. 241, 545 A.2d 917. Because...

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