Southern Pac. Co. v. Zehnle

DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, defendant below, appeals from a judgment, based upon the jury’s verdict, for $20,000 for the negligent killing by defendant of the father of appellee, a minor child suing through his guardian ad litem, the plaintiff below.

Appellant made no objection to the trial judge’s instruction to the jury that

“Pecuniary loss may be either a loss arising from the deprivation of something to which the plaintiff would have been legally entitled if his father had lived, or a loss arising from a deprivation of benefits which from all the circumstances of the particular case,…