· 2/18/1955
Ahlstrom v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad
Citations
- 244 Minn. 1
- 68 N.W.2d 873
- 1955 Minn. LEXIS 552
How courts have described this case
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- fragmenting damages over a person’s life expectancy, though illuminating, may be misleading
- fragmenting damages over a person's life expectancy, though illuminating, may be misleading
- “Unlike loss of earnings or the cost of a medical attendant, pain, suffering, and disability recoveries cannot be reduced to mathematical formulae, and on this theory they have been exempted from deductions for present worth.”
- cost of daily health attendant care was discounted
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Judges: Christianson
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