WYCKO v. GNODTKE

Docket No. 12, Calendar No. 48,322.

361 Mich. 331 (1960)

105 N.W.2d 118

WYCKO v. GNODTKE.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided September 16, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George S. Keller and Theron D. Childs, for plaintiff.

Seymour & Seymour (Dale A. Seymour, of counsel), for defendants.


SMITH, J.

The case before us concerns, in general, damages for the life of a child negligently killed. Specifically it is whether or not a jury award of approximately $15,000 to the parents of a 14-year-old boy was excessive.

So far as the facts are concerned we will simply say that the deceased was walking, completely off a highway, with some other boy scouts. He was killed by an automobile owned by one defendant and driven by the other. The car suddenly...

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