Court Opinion

ID: 9598134
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 01:05:55.880132+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:34:22.874658
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COMPTON, J.,
dissenting in part.
I would allow recovery of the expenses incident to burial of the child and thus would affirm the judgment of the trial court without modification.
*422In excising the costs of the child’s funeral and grave marker from the expenses allowed, the majority employs inconsistent reasoning. It is illogical, for the majority to say that expenses of care and treatment due to the wrongful birth are recoverable and in the same breath deny recovery of the burial expenses, when without the wrongful birth there would have been no death, necessitating the expense of burial.
In my opinion, the jury properly was allowed to determine whether, in the language of the damage instruction given in this case, the funeral expenses “proximately resulted” from the defendant’s negligence.