Case ID: miss_113/html/0045-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HoldeN, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Mobile & O. R. Co. v. Currie.
    [73 South. 868,
    Division A.]
    Carriers of Passengers. Action for damages. Excessive verdict.
    
    Under the facts in this case, in an action for personal injuries caused by the failure of the railroad company to stop a passenger train and let plaintiff get off at her place of destination, the court held that a verdict for three hundred and seventy-five dollars was grossly excessive.
    Appeal from the circuit court of Lauderdale county.
    Horn W. W. YeNable, Judge.
    Suit by Mrs. D. 0. Carrie against the Mobile & Ohio Eailway Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
    
      This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the appellee for damages claimed by her due to the failure of the appellant to stop one of its passenger trains and put her off at a station on its line to which she had purchased a .ticket.
    
      Bashm & Wilbown, for appellant.
    
      Fewell & Cameron, for appellee.
   HoldeN, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

After a careful examination of the record in this case, we find no reversible error, except that the amount of three hundred and seventy-five dollars assessed as damages is grossly excessive, and, unless the appellee enters a remittitur reducing the amount to one hundred dollars, the judgment of the lower court will he reversed for a new trial as to the amount of damages only ,• but, if said remittitur is entered here, the judgment of the lower court will he affirmed.

Affirmed conditionally.