Court Opinion

ID: 9770438
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 16:05:09.687189+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:17.317866
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
Appellee Burton Construction & Shipbuilding Company, Inc., in its motion - for rehearing, has’ assigned error to the effect that the judgment which we héretofore entered ‘ in this cause is excessive in the amount of $500, since’ such sum of $500 represents- alleged medical expense’ pleaded by appellant and appellee contends that no proof1 was offered to show such expense and that' same was' not recoverable as á matter of law. ' : ' ■
Appellant has filed - a .remittitur herein and concedes that he is not entitled to recover such additional sum of $500 for doctors’, hospital and medical expense, and asks that the judgment heretofore entered by this court be reformed to this extent.
Accordingly, the judgment of this court is reformed in conformity with said re-mittitur and judgment is rendered in favor of appellant Oralee Broussard against Burton Construction & Shipbuilding Company, Inc., for the sum of $50,000, with interest thereon from November 7, 1952, at the rate of six per cent per annum.
The judgment of this court in all other respects is undisturbed and the motion for rehearing of appellee Burton Construction & Shipbuilding Company, Inc., is overruled.