Court Opinion

ID: 9864478
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 13:15:59.884636+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:12:51.967883
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THE COURT.
In his petition for rehearing the respondent offers, for the first time, to have the judgment for the value of the trucks reduced in the sum of $3,200.42, and upon such reduction being made, requests that the judgment be affirmed. In our opinion we did not find it necessary to consider or comment upon the amount awarded by the jury as damages sustained by the defendant by being deprived of the possession of the personal property for 300 days. The jury fixed the value of the property at $10,000, and the damages for its detention at $15,000. If this amount is not excessive it is dangerously near being so. We do not think it necessary to decide this question, but we believe the case should be tried anew. There are other very questionable parts of the record that it is not necessary to pass upon here.
The petition for rehearing is denied.
*319A petition by respondent to have the cause heard in the Supreme Court, after judgment in the District Court of Appeal, was denied by the Supreme Court on April 29, 1930.