Gilmore v. Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority

Deen, Judge.

In both cases a stated amount of damages was prayed for as the full value of the life of the decedent, and in each case the named defendant’s negligence was alleged to be the sole proximate cause of the death. The acts of negligence alleged differ in time, place, and character. We have been cited to various cases, some of which will be subsequently discussed, involving general legal principles such as that (a) a release of one joint tortfeasor releases all; (b) verdicts void for repugnancy will not be allowed to stand; and (c) from a single injury there may be but one…