Legal Opinion
Coakley v. Daniels
Court of Appeals of Tennessee
Decided February 28, 1992PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
LEWIS, Judge.
Defendant Robert Daniels has appealed from the judgment rendered against him of $750,000.00 compensatory damages and $150,000.00 punitive damages following a bench trial.
Plaintiff Eric Coakley, as father and next kin of Sylvia K. Coakley, filed a complaint alleging the wrongful death of his daughter Sylvia K. Coakley in that defendant Robert Daniels, at approximately 3:00 a.m on 16 August 1988, came to the home of Sylvia K. Coakley with a concealed loaded pistol on his person and “without provocation or warning” fired three or four “bullets from the pistol into the person…
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