Court Opinion

ID: 9765866
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 04:22:48.921232+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:16.265453
License: Public Domain

Concurring and Dissenting Opinion by
Mr. Justice Jones:
I concur in the court’s entry of judgment n.o.v. for Arvid R. Werner, additional defendant, against whom no evidence of negligence was introduced. However, I would grant the plaintiffs a new trial as to Sam Laria, the original defendant, because of the manifest inadequacy of the jury’s awards to the plaintiffs. There is no need to repeat here the extent of the plaintiffs’ serious injuries, the duration of their consequent incapacity and their loss of earnings. The majority opinion adequately recites the facts in such regard.
*238The verdict for the injured husband was but $3,000 while his actual out-of-pocket expense for doctors’ bills and hospital care for himself and his wife was $2,700. In addition, both the husband and the wife proved substantial loss of earnings which, it is true, the jury was under no compulsion to believe; but, the evidence in regard to loss of earnings was so readily verifiable that for the jury to have disbelieved it was nothing other than the indulgence of caprice.