Month: October 2024

NEGLIGENT MISREPRESENTATION; ELEMENTS The defendant must have supplied information while in the course of his business, profession or employment, or any other transaction in which he had a pecuniary interest; The information must have been false; The information must have been supplied for the guidance of the plaintiff in his business transactions; The defendant must…

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WRONGFUL DEATH OF CHILD; HEIR AS PLAINTIFF; LOSS OF PROBABLE SUPPORT, COMPANIONSHIP, SOCIETY AND COMFORT The heir’s loss of probable support, companionship, society and comfort. In determining that loss you may consider not only the benefits that the heir was reasonably certain to have received form the earnings and services of [his] [her] child during…

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  WRONGFUL DEATH; HEIR AS PLAINTIFF; INTRODUCTORY Plaintiff[s]___________________________________________________ [is] [are] the heir[s] of_________________________________________ , deceased. In determining the amount of losses, if any, suffered by [one or more of] the heir[s] as a [proximate] [legal] result of the death of___________________________ , you will decide upon a sum of money sufficient to reasonably and fairly compensate…

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LOSS OF USE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Damage to plaintiff as a result of being deprived of the use of his [automobile] [property] during the time reasonably necessary for repairing the damage [proximately] [legally] resulting from the accident. In determining that amount you may consider the reasonable rental value of the [automobile] [property] for the period…

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PERSONAL PROPERTY LOST OR DESTROYED The plaintiff’s property that was lost or destroyed in, or because of, the accident. That amount is the fair market value of such property at the time of its loss or destruction. NEV. J.I. 10.10 BAJI 14.21 Jay YoungHon. Jay Young (Ret.) is a retired judicial officer with decades of…

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GENERAL VERDICT CONCERNING NEGLIGENCE ALONG WITH SPECIAL VERDICT CONCERNING CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE; VERDICT FOR PLAINTIFF We, the jury in the above-entitled action, find for the plaintiff and against the defendant and, without reduction for plaintiff’s contributory negligence, if any, assess the total amount of the plaintiff’s damages at $          . Having found for the plaintiff and…

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