Court Opinion

ID: 6169798
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-02-05 19:32:15.093967+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:58:17.134819
License: Public Domain

Hofstadter, J.
(dissenting). The basis for exchange to be employed in settlement between the parties was properly for the trial court. We must recognize the plain and undeniable fact — perhaps awkward at times — that it is not our province to retry the case — either as to liability or as to damages measuring an award — in the proper exercise of our limited power of review of the facts. Since the trial court has a superior opportunity for deciding contested issues, we should deal discreetly with its considered judgment lest we violate the essential and inherent dignity of the trial forum; in doing so, we do violence to our own. Hence, it is incumbent on us to exercise the power of review at its utmost stretch to sustain a judgment including the award — not to disturb it.
Stetter and Aurelio, JJ., concur in Per Curiam opinion; Hofstadter, J., dissents and votes to affirm in opinion.
Judgment modified, etc.