MALONE FREIGHT LINES INC. v. PRIDMORE

34159.

86 Ga. App. 578 (1952)

71 S.E.2d 877

MALONE FREIGHT LINES INC. et al. v. PRIDMORE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Rehearing Denied July 21, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stewart & York, Nall & Sterne, for plaintiffs in error.

C. V. Driver, D. B. Howe, contra.


TOWNSEND, J.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) 1. In the first special ground it is contended that the verdict of $30,000 was excessive. It will be noted that the plaintiff, who was earning $4200 per year at the time of the injuries, had a life expectancy of over 12 years. This amount, reduced to its present cash value, would, figured by the Carlisle tables, represent over $29,000, reduced further, of course, by whatever the jury wished in order to offset the declining...

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