Court Opinion

ID: 4938457
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-09-24 01:21:44.95928+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:14:46.985936
License: Public Domain

An action for trespass to the person. Plea, general issue. Verdict for $290.50, which defendant moves to have set aside as against law and the evidence and because of excessive damages. The correctness of this verdict depends on the credibility of the witnesses, which the jury could better determine than the Law Court. There being no denial that the plaintiff’s arm was broken and that as a result he was unfit for labor for several weeks, the jury having decided that the injury resulted from an unjustifiable assault with a club upo a one who was already a cripple, the damages are not excessive. Motion overruled.