Case ID: fla_140/html/0514-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Eloise J. Dixon, et vir.
    
    192 So. 186
    Opinion Filed November 17, 1939
    
      
      McKay, Dixon & DeJarnette, for Plaintiff in Error;
    
      M. Lewis Hall, for Defendants in Error.
   Pee Curiam. —

In an action for personal injuries to the wife caused by a fall on the stair steps in a department store, attributed to alleged negligence of the defendant in allowing the stair steps to become in a dangerous and unsafe condition, verdict and judgment were rendered awarding $2,500.00 to the wife and $500.00 to the husband.

There is evidence to sustain a finding of liability of the defendant, and no reversible error of procedure is made to appear. However the damages awarded the wife are excessive in amount. If the plaintiff remits $800.00 of the damages allowed the wife, the judgment will stand affirmed for the amounts remaining; otherwise a new trial will be granted as to the damages to the wife.

It is so ordered.

Whitfield, P. J., and Brown and Chapman, J. J., concur.

Terrell, C. P., concurs in opinion and judgment.

Justices Buford and Thomas not participating as authorized by Section 4687, Compiled General Laws of 1927, and Rule 21-A of the Rules of this Court.