Court Opinion

ID: 9688486
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 17:50:26.591112+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:06:29.880174
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Alexander, J.,
(specially concurring).
I concur in the result here reached. However, I assent reluctantly to an approval of the action of the trial court in refusing the defendant’s instruction which forbade the jury to find, and include in its award, damages for pain and suffering by the deceased. We have heretofore tested this right by examining whether the victim regained consciousness. There should never he such an award unless there is conscious suffering. The burden of proof was, of course, on the plaintiffs. The testimony on this point was, to say the least, meager, and the testimony of the attending physicians was far from positive.
I am authorized to state that Justice Roberds concurs in these views.