Case ID: fla_106/html/0298-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Miami Transit Company, a Florida Corporation, Plaintiff in Error, vs. R. E. Ross, Defendant in Error.
    
    143 So. 234.
    En Banc.
    Opinion filed July 27, 1932.
    Petition for rehearing denied August 23, 1932.
    
      Worley <& Worley, for Plaintiff in Error;
    
      ColUns <& Collins, and Waller <& Pepper, for Defendant in Error.
   Per Curiam.

This writ of error was taken to a judgment for $4423.68 damages to the plaintiff in an action for personal and property injuries in a collision between an automobile and a motor bus. The record has been duly considered and negligence of the defendant as alleged being shown but the damages' awarded being excessive a remittitur may be permitted. Ryan v. Noble, 95 Fla. 830, 115 So. 766; Luce v. Lee, 79 Fla. 693, 84 So. 726; Florida Railway and Navigation Co. v. Webster, 25 Fla. 394, 5 So. 714. Tbe court, without a detailed discussion of the errors assigned, hereby orders1 that upon remittitur of $1500.00 being entered as of the date of the judgment, within ten days after the filing of the mandate in the trial court, the judgment will stand affirmed for the remainder $2923.68, otherwise the judgment will stand reversed for a new trial.

It is so ordered.

Whitfield, P. J., and Terrell and Davis, J. J., concur.