Case Name: SARAH SALLAJI, PLAINTIFF, v. PUBLIC SERVICE CO-ORDINATED TRANSPORT ET AL., DEFENDANTS
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1930-11-28
Citations: 8 N.J. Misc. 903
Docket Number: 
Parties: SARAH SALLAJI, PLAINTIFF, v. PUBLIC SERVICE CO-ORDINATED TRANSPORT ET AL., DEFENDANTS.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 8
Pages: 903–903

Head Matter:
SARAH SALLAJI, PLAINTIFF, v. PUBLIC SERVICE CO-ORDINATED TRANSPORT ET AL., DEFENDANTS.
Decided November 28, 1930.
Before Gummebe, Chief Justice, and Justice Campbell.
Eor the rale, Henry H. Fryling and Carl T. Freggens.
Contra, Peter J. McGinnis.

Opinion:
Peb Cubiam.
The present suit was instituted hy the plaintiff to recover compensation for injuries received by her in a collision between a trolley car of the Public Service Co-ordinated Transport and an automobile in which she was riding. The principal injury received by the plaintiff was a fracture of the right arm at the elbow joint, which made the amputation of the arm above the joint necessary. The trial resulted in a verdict in her favor, the jury awarding her $75,000.
In our opinion, the verdict is so excessive as to make it manifest that it could not have been the result of a fair, impartial and dispassionate consideration of the evidence in the case, and, for this reason, we conclude that the verdict should be set aside and a new trial ordered.