Court Opinion

ID: 9585337
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:59:15.493881+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:38:50.158248
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Felton, Chief Judge,
dissenting. I dissent from the judgment and from the ruling in Division 8 of the opinion. I concur in all of the other rulings by the majority. I think that the enumeration of error and argument constitute a good exception to the charge in question, that the charge itself was erroneous in that it gave the wrong definition of the “full value” of the life of the deceased under the evidence in this case. “The full value of the life of the wife as set out in the Civil Code (1910), § 4425, is its present value, and that is arrived at by determining from the evidence the gross value of the life of the wife, and then reducing this amount to its present cash value. . .” Central of Ga. R. Co. v. Keating, 45 Ga. App. 811, 819 (165 SE 873) and cases cited; 77 ALR 1439; Atlanta & W. P. R. Co. v. Newton, 85 Ga. 517 (11 SE 776); Metropolitan St. R. Co. v. Johnson, 91 Ga. 466, 471 (18 SE 816); Barnes v. Thomas, 72 Ga. App. 827, 831 (35 SE2d 364).