NIMNICHT v. OSTERTAG

No. K-113.

225 So.2d 459 (1969)

Billie Nugent NIMNICHT, d/b/a Riverside Chevrolet Company, Appellant, v. John Carl OSTERTAG and Mary Sykes Ostertag, As Administrators of the Estate of Mary Ellen Ostertag, Deceased, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. First District.

Rehearing Denied August 20, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howell, Kirby, Montgomery & D'Aiuto, Jacksonville, for appellant.

Searcy & Sohn, Jacksonville, for appellees.


CARROLL, DONALD K., Judge.

The defendant in a wrongful death action has appealed from a final judgment entered by the Circuit Court for Duval County, based upon a jury verdict.

The sole point on appeal raised herein by the appellant is whether, in an administrator's action under the survival statute for conscious pain and suffering, an award of an amount in excess of $50,000 is excessive where the deceased lived 23 hours, during all of which time she was either...

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