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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 643
    CLEVELAND RAILWAY CO. v. WINSLOW
    Ohio Appeals, 8th Dist., Cuyahoga County
    No. 5297.
    June 23, 1924
    Vickery, P. J., Sullivan and Levine, JJ.
    899. NEW TRIAL — Instead of remittur of excessive verdict may be made.
    Attorneys — Squire^ Sanders & Dempsey, for Railway Co.; A. H. Fiebaeh, for Winslow; all of Cleveland.
   PER CURIAM.,

Epitomized Opinion

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Louis Winslow broug-ht an action in Cuya-hoga Common Pleas for damages and received judgment for $20,300. The trial court cut this down to $10,250. The Railway brought error to the Appeals; which held that practically the only error complained of was' that the verdict was so excessive that it in itself showed passion and prejudice, and that therefore instead of making a remittur the court should have granted a new trial.

That the injuries were such and the nature of the accident such that he was entitled to a substantial verdict, and the amount of which was more in the province of a jury than in a court. The court below, however, having reduced the verdict, which, apparently, was done under a misapprehension as to what some of the witnesses testified to, as noted in the bill of exceptions, this court will not, for that reason, disturb the verdict.