Court Opinion

ID: 7332926
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-25 22:19:39.5464+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:20:10.786911
License: Public Domain

PEB CURIAM.
The recovery in this case is very large, and we are impressed, after a careful reading of the testimony returned, that the services claimed to have been rendered are exaggerated in character and in value. There is no proof of the expenditure of the sum of $420 by the plaintiff for the benefit of the deceased, disclosed in the record. The amount of such expenditure in the complaint is made by the plaintiff upon information and belief. If she expended this sum, it would seem to be within her personal knowledge, and therefore admitted of a positive allegation. However this may be, the averment is not denied in the answer, and such expenditure is not now controverted. It is not claimed that the case presents any valid exception which requires a reversal of the judgment, and it is difficult to see from the proof htiw the court can legally interfere, either by the granting of a new trial, or reducing the amount of the recovery. If, however, we could find ground for such action, the appellants have rendered such course impossible, by failing to have inserted a statement that the case contains all the evidence. We must therefore conclude that evidence was given sufficient to support the judgment which has been rendered.
The judgment should be affirmed, with costs.