PJC General Negligence 2024

S URVIVAL D AMAGES

PJC 30.1

PJC 30.1 Survival Damages—Instruction Conditioning Damages Questions on Liability Answer Question ______ [ the damages question ] if you answered “Yes” for Don Davis to Question ______ [ the liability question ] and answered: 1. “No” for Paul Payne to Question ______ [ the liability question ], or 2. 50 percent or less for Paul Payne to Question ______ [ the percent age causation question ]. Otherwise, do not answer Question ______ [ the damages question ]. COMMENT When to use. PJC 30.1 may be used to condition answers to survival damages questions on a finding of liability as permitted by Tex. R. Civ. P. 277. See H.E. Butt Grocery Co. v. Bilotto , 985 S.W.2d 22 (Tex. 1998). Multiple plaintiffs. For multiple plaintiffs, the instruction should precede the cluster of damages questions for each plaintiff. Multiple defendants. For multiple defendants, Don Davis should be replaced with any of the defendants .

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