Case ID: ill-app_207/html/0631-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ida Lundsey, Appellee, v. Butler Fouts, Administrator, Appellant.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Abstract of the Decision.
    Damages, § 153
      
       — When verdict for personal services os nurse is excessive. Verdict of $432 for services rendered as practical nurse for a part of the time for a period of 216 days, held excessive.
    Appeal from the Circuit Court of Fulton county; the Hon. Harry M. Waggoner, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1917.
    Affirmed on remittitur; otherwise reversed and remanded.
    Opinion filed October 11, 1917.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action by Ida Lundsey, plaintiff, against Butler Fouts, administrator of the estate of Mary S. Carton, deceased, defendant, on a claim for services rendered defendant’s intestate. From a judgment for plaintiff for $432, defendant appeals.
    M. T. Robison, for appellant; B. L. Catron, of counsel.
    Harvey H. Atherton and E. L. Weber, for appellee.
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Presiding Justice Graves

delivered the opinion of the court.