Alternative Health Care Systems, Inc. v. McCown

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• holding that a “jury may award different measures of damages on multiple claims if the evidence establishes several distinct torts”
• affirming award of $418,000 for defendant’s wrongful instructions that plaintiffs deceased husband’s eyes be removed as well as its subsequent attempts to conceal removal
• trial court properly excluded a hospice chaplain from testifying at trial in a dispute concerning whether the decedent’s wife consented to organ donation
• trial court properly excluded a hospice chaplain from testifying at trial in a dispute concerning whether the decedent's wife consented to organ donation
• “a jury may award different measures of damages on multiple claims if the evidence establishes several distinct torts”
• plaintiff “asserted a claim of trespass on her quasi-property rights in the body of her deceased husband, arising from the removal of [his] eyes despite her refusal to consent”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).