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CLARE WEST ET AL. v. WAYNE AKARD

Posted by: Karen Belcher on Jun 30, 2022

Court: TN Court of Appeals

Attorneys 1: Wayne Akard, Knoxville, Tennessee, pro se.

Attorneys 2: Matthew D. Barocas, Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellees, Clare West and Frederick West.

Judge(s): BENNETT

In this landlord-tenant dispute, the circuit court concluded that the landlord violated the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (“Landlord/Tenant Act”), Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 66-28-101 to -522, and awarded the tenants $3,000 in compensatory damages and $25,000 in punitive damages. The landlord appealed the punitive damages award. Because the landlord failed to file either a transcript or statement of the evidence, we conclusively presume that the record would have supported an award ofpunitive damages, and we affirm the circuit court’s judgment as modified.

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