Case Name: ELMER YEAGER ET UX., PLAINTIFFS, v. ATLANTIC CITY AND SHORE RAILROAD COMPANY, DEFENDANT
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1929-11-08
Citations: 7 N.J. Misc. 1000
Docket Number: 
Parties: ELMER YEAGER ET UX., PLAINTIFFS, v. ATLANTIC CITY AND SHORE RAILROAD COMPANY, DEFENDANT.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 7
Pages: 1000–1001

Head Matter:
ELMER YEAGER ET UX., PLAINTIFFS, v. ATLANTIC CITY AND SHORE RAILROAD COMPANY, DEFENDANT.
Decided November 8, 1929.
Before Gummeke, Chief Justice, and Justices Kalisch and Campbell.
Por the rule, Bourgeois & Coulomb.
Contra, Samuel Morris.

Opinion:
Pee Curiam.
This action was brought by the plaintiffs, Elmer Yeager and Laura Yeager, his wife, to recover compensation for damages sustained by them, when the defendant's trolley car crashed into the rear of the husband's automobile, in which they were riding. The jury brought in a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs, awarding the husband $2,000 and the wife $500.
The only ground upon which we are asked to set aside these awards is that they were plainly excessive. Our examination of the testimony relating to the character of the injuries received by the respective plaintiffs, the medical expenses incurred by the husband by reason thereof, the loss of wages by the husband, and the cost of repairing his automobile satisfies us that the award to him was a reasonable one. The character of the injuries received by the wife in the collision justified the award made to her, in our opinion.
The rule to show cause will be discharged.