19. Sally breaks into Joe’s house in the middle of the night…
19. Sally breaks into Joe’s house in the middle of the night. Sally has always been annoyed with Joe ever since he embarrassed her in a game of Pictionary three years earlier. Sally decides to exact her revenge by stealing and destroying Joe’s favorite framed photograph, an original Ansel Adams photograph worth $4,000. She successfully steals the photograph and destroys it by burning it. Joe sues Sally for $4,000 and also seeks punitive damages. What is the amount of punitive damages that the court will most likely award Joe in this case?
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