Case Name: FRANCES BUTRYN ET AL., PLAINTIFFS-RESPONDENTS, v. PUBLIC SERVICE CO-ORDINATED TRANSPORT, A CORPORATION, AND GARFIELD-PASSAIC TRANSIT COMPANY, A CORPORATION, DEFENDANTS-APPELLANTS
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1931-11-16
Citations: 9 N.J. Misc. 1145
Docket Number: 
Parties: FRANCES BUTRYN ET AL., PLAINTIFFS-RESPONDENTS, v. PUBLIC SERVICE CO-ORDINATED TRANSPORT, A CORPORATION, AND GARFIELD-PASSAIC TRANSIT COMPANY, A CORPORATION, DEFENDANTS-APPELLANTS.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 9
Pages: 1145–1146

Head Matter:
FRANCES BUTRYN ET AL., PLAINTIFFS-RESPONDENTS, v. PUBLIC SERVICE CO-ORDINATED TRANSPORT, A CORPORATION, AND GARFIELD-PASSAIC TRANSIT COMPANY, A CORPORATION, DEFENDANTS-APPELLANTS.
Submitted May 15, 1931
Decided November 16, 1931.
Before Gummebe, Chief Justice, and Justices Partcer and Case.
Eor the plaintiffs-respondents, Patten ■& Amlicke {Joseph J. IFeinberger, of counsel).
Eor the defendant-appellant Public Service Co-ordinated Transport, Henry II. Fr-yling {William F. Vosseler, of counsel).

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The plaintiff Prances Butryn was painfully injured on July 21st, 1929, while a passenger in a bus belonging to the Garfield-Passaic Transit Company, as a result of a collision between the bus and a trolley car of the Public Service Coordinated Transport. Other plaintiffs joined with Mrs. Butryn in the action. Amongst such was Felix Butryn, her husband, who sued for and received incidental damages because of the wife's injury. A verdict of no cause of action was rendered as to Garfield-Passaic Transit Company. The case comes before us on a rule to show cause granted at the instance of Public Service Co-ordinated Transport, which rule runs only to the point that the verdict of $8,000 in favor of Mrs. Butryn is excessive.
The plaintiff received bodily contusions and nervous shock as well as a laceration of the left nasal bone, but her chief injury was to the right arm, including the shoulder and hand. There subsisted at the time of the trial an impairment of the usefulness of the right arm, claimed by the plaintiff's physician to be thirty per centum and by the defendant's physician to be fifteen per centum of normal usefulness. The plaintiff was under medical attention until shortly before the trial, which was December 3d, 1930. Prior to the accident she had been able to do her housework and perform certain employment at a woolen mill for which she earned $13.50 per week. There was proof to the effect that she had been unable to resume her work in the factory and that she had not been able to function fully in her own housework. The action in Mrs. Butryn's behalf does not include expenses incident to her treatment or recovery.
We believe that under the proofs the verdict of $8,000 was excessive. If plaintiff will consent to a reduction of the verdict to the sum of $6,000, the rule will be discharged; otherwise the rule will be made absolute and a new trial granted.