Leonard v. Kirkpatrick

Deen, Judge.

1. It has been stated by this court on several occasions that the jury in awarding damages may take into consideration, from their general knowledge and experience of human affairs, that the economy is in a period of inflation or depression as the case may be. Seaboard A.-L. R. v. Miller, 5 Ga. App. 402 (63 SE 299); Fields v. Jackson, 102 Ga. App. 117, 123 (115 SE2d 877); Jordan v. Fowler, 104 Ga. App. 824, 827 (123 SE2d 334). Under certain circumstances, however, a charge to this effect has been held error. J. J. Woodside Storage Co. v. Carr, 108 Ga. App. 34, 37 (132 SE2d 241).…