Case ID: nj-misc_3/html/1043-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Peh Cueiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MARY MULHORN AND GEORGE MULHORN, PLAINTIFFS, v. PUBLIC SERVICE TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, DEFENDANT.
    Decided October 19, 1925.
    Negligence) — Injury to Passengers of Motor Bus, Husband and Wife — Excessive Damages Alleged — Award of Wife’s Not Excessive — If Husband Files Amended Complaint, Increasing Demand to Cover Personal Injuries, Rule Will Be Discharged.
    On rule for new trial.
    Before Gummeee, Chief Justice, and Justices Kalisch and Campbell.
    For the plaintiff, William G. French.
    
    For the defendant, Ralph N. Kellam.
    
   Peh Cueiam.

This was an action to recover damages arising out of an accident, alleged to be due to the negligence of the defendant in operating a. bus in which the plaintiffs were passengers.

Mary Mulhorn, the wife, has a verdict for $5,000, and George Mulhorn, her husband, has a verdict for $2,500.

The defendant has a rule to show cause why the verdicts should not be set aside. The sole ground urged is that the verdicts are excessive.

Under the complaint, as contained in the state of the case, the husband claims damages only for loss of services and consortium of his wife, and the cost of effecting a cure of the wife. His verdict seems to be based upon personal injuries suffered by him also.

The verdict in favor of the wife, Mary Mulhorn, is not excessive, and the rule to show cause as to her verdict is discharged, with costs.

If the husband, George Mulhorn, will file an amended complaint increasing his demand so as to cover injuries suffered by himself, then the rule to show cause as to his verdict will be discharged, with costs, otherwise it will be made absolute.