Kesler v. Veal

Birdsong, Judge.

This is an appeal from a jury verdict awarding plaintiffs $400,000 in actual damages and a total of $950,000 in punitive damages against the three defendants in this wrongful death action. Only defendant Kesler has appealed from the verdict. The only enumerations of error concern the trial court’s admission of the testimony of defendant Faircloth given in the previous criminal action against defendants Kesler and Crumpler. For a synopsis of that testimony, see Kesler v. State, 249 Ga. 462 (291 SE2d 497). No enumeration of error relates to the propriety of the damage award or…