Court Opinion

ID: 4920521
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-09-22 00:17:06.255609+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:14:02.604787
License: Public Domain

Per Curiam.
In an action for alleged personal injuries received by being caught in a door in alighting from a street car, a verdict for $5,000.00' was returned for the plaintiff. Upon suggestion of the trial court a remittitur of $3,000.00 was entered and judgment was rendered for $2,000.00. A motion for new trial was denied the defendant company and writ of error was taken.
A careful examination of the evidence contained in the transcript clearly shows that the injury received could not in reason have caused very -great or prolonged pain or suf*269fering, did not entail expense or very much loss of activity and was not in any way permanent.
It is also manifest that the amount of the judgment as rendered, after remittitur, is greatly in excess of the “damage done” for which compensation, is allowed by the statute. Sec. 3148, Gen. Stats., 1906, Compiled Laws, 1914.
If the defendant in error will enter a remittitur of $1,-500.00 within 30 days after the filing of the mandate in the court below the judgment will stand affirmed for $500.00; otherwise the judgment will stand reversed. Luce v. Lee, 79 Fla. 693, 84 South. Rep. 726; Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Conant, 79 Fla. 668, 84 South. Rep.. 688; Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. v. Scott, 76 Fla. 336, 79 South. Rep. 767; Saunders Transfer Co. v. Underwood, 77 Fla. 167, 81 South. Rep. 105; Florida East Coast R. Co. v. Schumacher, 63 Fla. 137, 57 South. Rep. 603; Florida East Coast R. Co. v. Hayes, 67 Fla. 101, 64 South. Rep. 504; Florida Ry. & Nav. Co. v. Webster, 25 Fla. 394, 5 South. Rep. 714. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Pipkin, 64 Fla. 24, 59 South. Rep. 564.
It is so ordered.
Browne, C. J., and Taylor, Whitfield, Ellis and West, J. J., concur.