Court Opinion

ID: 3821261
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 07:56:04.664779+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:03.000834
License: Public Domain

Upon consideration of the second petition for rehearing, we are constrained to adhere to the opinion of Commissioner Rosser filed herein, except as to the rule therein announced for the measure of damages for wrongful death of a child, as set out in paragraph 7 of the syllabus. The rule there announced is possibly correct as applied to the record in the instant case, but is too restricted for general application. In a case where the evidence shows the dependent condition of the surviving parent, and the disposition of the child, and its relation to the parent to be such that there is a reasonable expectation that the child would continue, after its majority, to contribute to the support of the parent, these facts should not be excluded from the jury in determining the damages sustained by the wrongful death.
With the modification, the former opinion is adhered to, and a rehearing denied.
By the Court: It is so ordered. *Page 463