He was granted some rather hefty damages for that time. I believe that it was over a million dollars. That is in excess of $83,000 per stroke.
Not a bad payday for some whacks on the bottom.

Certainly better recompense than the little chaps who hired themselves out as virtual ‘whipping boys’ in the 19th century.
By comparison, their rewards were peanuts.

It is a rather interesting phenomenon, the boys consenting to be whacked for financial reward, as a great many attended public schools, and therefore were not desperate paupers, but members of the upper classes.