Court Opinion

ID: 9684726
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 14:09:35.496361+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:06:55.932223
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*360Dethmers, J.
(dissenting). Thinking still, as I did when signing Mr. Justice Carr’s minority opinion in Wycko v. Gnodtke, 361 Mich 331, and for the reasons therein stated, that the so-called wrongful death act, under which this action was brought, limits recovery to the pecuniary loss resulting from the death and does not permit recovery for solatium, loss of companionship, or other so-called sentimental loss, I favor reversal because the trial court’s instructions to the jury here permitted it thus to award damages for that which the statute, so viewed, does not allow.