Court Opinion

ID: 9834552
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-02 00:00:21.395972+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:22.438863
License: Public Domain

Watson, C. J.,
concurs in the foregoing opinion in all respects except (a) the conclusion reached on the motion to set the verdict aside and (b) the disposition of the petition for a new trial. Eespecting the former, he is of the opinion that the record shows the sums to which the verdict was reduced are so manifestly excessive as to be clearly unreasonable, and consequently the failure of the court to make such further reduction as was sufficient to relieve the verdict of such excessiveness was an abuse of discretion. As to the latter, he would find that the juryman Martin expressed the opinion set out in the petition, entitling the defendants to a new trial. In these two respects and to that extent he dissents.