Rea v. . Simowitz

Upon the admission that the negligence of the defendants proximately caused the death of the plaintiff’s intestate, the trial below resolved itself into an inquiry of damages.

The plaintiff’s evidence, which was uncontradicted, tended to show that intestate was a girl nine years of age; that she was a normal healthy child, bright and intelligent; regular in her attendance at school, happy and unusually attractive; of normal physical development for her age, and slightly above the average in size. No evidence of expectancy according to any mortuary table was offered.

Our statute, G. S., 28-174,…