Legal Opinion

Peter Joseph Caldarera, Jr., Etc. v. Eastern Airlines, Inc., and United States of America

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided May 27, 1983No. 82-3186PublishedCited by 192 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

After a trial in which the sole issue was the amount of damages caused by the death of three persons in a plane crash, 1 the jury returned a verdict of $937,500 against Eastern Airlines in favor of Peter Caldarera for the death of his mother, wife, and eight-year-old son and a verdict of the same amount in favor of Christopher Moore Caldarera, who was four years old at the time of the disaster, for loss of his mother. The district court returned a verdict under the Federal Tort Claims Act against the United States, as joint defendant, in favor of Christopher for…

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