Byrne v. Schneider’s Iron & Metal, Inc

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• noting that “pain and suffering may be inferred from other evidence that does not explicitly establish the fact,” including that the decedent had sand clogging his breathing passages and died of suffocation
• concluding that a decedent’s consciousness could be inferred from testimony that the decedent’s breathing passages were obstructed by sand and that “[w]hen the supply of oxygen is cut off, a person loses consciousness within minutes” which “is followed by brain damage, then death”
• decedent-child was crushed under boulder in sand pit; child’s consciousness and resulting pain and suffering could be inferred from evidence that child died of suffocation, and that breathing passages were obstructed with sand

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).