Farrar v. Brooklyn Union Gas Co.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be reversed, with costs; defendant’s motion for summary judgment should be granted dismissing the complaint insofar as it seeks pecuniary damages based on loss of an estate tax credit; and the certified question should be answered in the negative.

The administrator of decedent’s estate commenced this wrongful death action seeking recovery of funeral expenses and a loss of inheritance of $125,562 resulting from the loss of a Federal estate tax credit. The administrator, successful in *804the lower courts, contended that had…