Case ID: mo_20/html/0567-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Ryland, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Barth, Respondent, vs. Merritt, Appellant.
    1. A case where the supreme court refused to reverse a judgment for excessive damages.
    
      Appeal from .St. Louis Circuit Court.
    
    
      E. Casselberry, for appellant.
    
      Blennerhassetl & Shreve, for respondent.
   Ryland, Judge.

This was a suit for assaulting and beating the plaintiff. The jury found the defendant guilty, and assessed the plaintiff’s damages at the sum of $200.

Plaintiff moved for a new trial, because the damages were •excessive. This motion being overruled, he brings the case here. The judgment below must be affirmed. This court cannot see that the damages in this ease are so excessive as to have made it error in tbe court below to have refused to set aside the verdict and grant a new trial. (Woodson v. Scott, ante, p. 272.) The other judges concurring, the judgment is affirmed.