holding that the trial court did not err in admitting testimony from an employment agency proprietor who estimated the value of the decedent’s household services at $173.25 per week by applying prevailing hourly rates for comparable roles, such as hostess, seamstress, and housekeeper
How later courts described this case
- holding that the trial court did not err in admitting testimony from an employment agency proprietor who estimated the value of the decedent’s household services at $173.25 per week by applying prevailing hourly rates for comparable roles, such as hostess, seamstress, and housekeeper
- in Pennsylvania the rights of survivors in a wrongful death case are fixed at the moment of death; remarriage cannot be considered in the assessment of damages
- jury required more guidance in measuring damages [decision may be affected by Federal Rules of Evidence, Rule 703]
- failure of plaintiff to introduce such evidence results in reversal on defendant's appeal
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The opinion
SUR PETITION FOR REHEARING
PER CURIAM.
The petition for rehearing filed by William Thomas Baker, Appellant in 18,-342 in the above entitled case having been submitted to the judges who participated in the decision of this court and to all the other available circuit judges of the circuit in regular active service, and no judge who concurred in the decision having asked for rehearing, and a majority of the circuit judges of the circuit in regular active service not having voted for rehearing by the court in banc, the petition for rehearing is denied.
VAN DUSEN, Circuit Judge, dissents from the denial of the Petition for Rehearing of petitioner William Thomas Baker.