Court Opinion

ID: 9714826
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 05:46:31.348493+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:14:15.803961
License: Public Domain

ON CIVIL PETITION TO TRANSFER
GIVAN, Justice,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent from the majority opinion in this case. I believe the Court of Appeals has decided this case correctly. See Peak v. Campbell (1990), Ind.App., 563 N.E.2d 648.
The majority of this Court confuses the duty to prove proximate cause with the duty to prove the amount of damages resulting from the cause. In this case, Peak had stipulated his fault, thus leaving the only issue to be decided by the jury the amount of damages suffered by the Camp-bells. This left Peak with full latitude to argue that the Campbells had not sustained their burden of proof as to the total damages claimed by them. This is not the same as proving proximate cause.
I would deny transfer in this case.