Court Opinion

ID: 9599507
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 01:19:19.652688+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:47:30.322782
License: Public Domain

PARKER, Chief Justice
(dissenting).
As Judge Gray observed in DeWitty v. Decker, Wyo., 383 P.2d 734, 738, the instructions — without objection — become the law of the case on the issue of damages. There was in the instant case no objection to the instruction informing the jury that in assessing damages they might take into consideration the pain and suffering of the plaintiff, if any, endured by reason of the injuries, if there were any.
Under the evidence adduced in this case, the jury could have believed that plaintiff was not actually injured but she nevertheless conscientiously thought she had been and proceeded with tests to attempt verification of her belief. Under such circumstances, the jury may have considered it only equitable that the hospital, X-ray, and medical bills be paid by the defendant; but there would be no' cause for awarding damages for pain and suffering occasioned by the tests. Thus the verdict justified under the mentioned instruction, should be affirmed.