Consolidated Freightways Corp. v. Futrell

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• holding that the trial court had not committed reversible error in refusing to instruct the jury that any award it made under Georgia’s wrongful death statute would not be subject to income taxes
• upholding verdict for the loss of the \intangible aspects of the decedents' lives\ based on \scant\ testimony from family members, but not from experts
• attempting .to measure “a parent’s society, advice, example and counsel” by looking to “the character and family cirr cumstances of the decedents, and ... of the decedents’ relationships with their respective children
• damages in wrongful death actions include “those items having a proven monetary value, such as lost potential lifetime earnings, income, or services”
• charge that overall award is not subject to taxation “is simple, clear and non-speculative”; charge that income portion is to be reduced by taxes requires evidence

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