# Estrada v. PORT CITY PROPERTIES, INC.

> Supreme Court of Oklahoma · April 19, 2011 · 258 P.3d 495

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9777747

## Case

- **Full name:** Philip ESTRADA, Plaintiff/Appellee, v. PORT CITY PROPERTIES, INC., D/B/a, Hodges Warehouse, Defendant/Appellant
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Oklahoma
- **Decided:** April 19, 2011
- **Citations:** 258 P.3d 495; 32 I.E.R. Cas. (BNA) 593; 2011 OK 30; 2011 Okla. LEXIS 31; 2011 WL 1467727
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurring in part by Reif
- **Judges:** Taylor, Kauger, Winchester, Edmondson, Combs, Gurich, Reif, Colbert, Watt
- **Cited by:** 33 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- explaining that once the trial court determines competent evidence exists, the statute then “guides the jury as to the many factors of conduct to consider, the level of conduct, and the degree of proof necessary to make an award of punitive damages”
- finding that it was error for the trial court to submit the issue of punitive damages to the jury when “there [was] simply no evidence sufficient to support a claim for punitive damages.”

## Opinion text

REIF, J.,
with whom COLBERT, V.C.J., and WATT, J., join, concurring in part; dissenting in part.
T1 I concur in the majority opinion in all respects except the reversal of the punitive damages award. I dissent to reversing the award of punitive damages. I believe there was sufficient evidence to support submission of punitive damages to the jury notwithstanding the doubts expressed by the trial court in this regard. I also believe there was sufficient evidence to support the amount of punitive damages awarded by the jury.

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