Court Opinion

ID: 9630137
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 10:02:24.572353+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:07:32.321134
License: Public Domain

SADLER, Justice (specially concurring). I concur in the result but not in all that is said in the prevailing opinion by way of observation on the facts in evidence. Much of it impresses me as obiter dictum, not essential to a determination of the basic issues in the case. The jury had ample justification in the evidence for finding primary negligence on defendant’s part and, by the same token, in absolving the plaintiff of contributory negligence. In so resolving this issue, however, there was involved a finer balancing of the facts than on the question of defendant’s primary negligence. Prejudicial error in the instructions, when viewed as a whole, is not convincingly established. Nor does the claim of an excessive award in the verdict stand up when the desperate character of the plaintiff’s injuries is given full weight. Accordingly, I concur in.the result declared which directs an affirmance of the judgment reviewed.