HUNT PETROLEUM CORP. v. STATE

1011762.

901 So.2d 1 (2004)

HUNT PETROLEUM CORPORATION v. STATE of Alabama.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied November 24, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sam C. Pointer, Jr., and M. Christian King of Lightfoot, Franklin & White, L.L.C., Birmingham; and John N. Leach of Helmsing, Leach, Herlong, Newman & Rouse, P.C., Mobile, for appellant.

William H. Pryor, Jr., atty. gen., and John T. Crowder, Jr., Deputy atty. gen.; and Robert T. Cunningham, Jr., Richard T. Dorman, David G. Wirtes, Jr., and George M. Dent III of Cunningham, Bounds, Yance, Crowder & Brown, L.L.C., Mobile, for appellee.


SEE, Justice.1

Hunt Petroleum Corporation appeals from a judgment entered against it and in favor of the State of Alabama awarding the State $3,403,200 in compensatory damages2 and $20,000,000 in punitive damages on the State's fraud claims. The State's fraud claims were based on alleged misrepresentations made by Hunt to the State regarding the payment of royalties...

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