Legal Opinion
Curtis v. Finneran
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided July 22, 1980PublishedCited by 173 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
POLLOCK, J.
The primary issue on this appeal is whether the judgment of the trial court sitting without a jury is supported by adequate findings of fact to uphold the conclusion that the net pecuniary loss suffered by decedent’s two surviving infant sons amounted to a total of $53,394.
The decedent, Ronald Paul Curtis, was killed instantly when the car in which he was a passenger struck a guardrail on a bridge on July 19, 1973. The accident occurred when the defendant, Robert A. Finneran, the owner and operator of the automobile, fell asleep at the…
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