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CARIBE TUGBOAT CORPORATION, AND CROWLEY TOWING AND TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, APPELLANTS, v. DANIEL T. DUFFY, APPELLEE.

PER CURIAM.

Appellant seeks reversal of a jury award based upon the trial court's failure to instruct the jury as to the non-taxability of the award pursuant to the judicially stated rule of Norfolk and Western Railway Company v. Liepelt, 444 U.S. 490, 100 S.Ct. 755, 62 L.Ed.2d 689 (1980). We concede that Liepelt requires the instruction on the non-taxability of the award be given, therefore it was error to fail to do so. However, considering the evidence presented and the relative amount of the award, we find it was harmless error under the circumstances of this case.

Accordingly, the trial court's final judgment is AFFIRMED.

SHIVERS, WENTWORTH and JOANOS, JJ., concur.

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CARIBE TUGBOAT CORPORATION v. DUFFY
(Mar 18, 1983)