Court Opinion

ID: 9460878
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:02:02.403628+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:36:48.947497
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COLEMAN, Circuit Judge
(concurring) .
I have always felt that appellate reversal of a jury award is an extremely serious matter. This, of course, is more than compounded when dealing, as we are here, with a verdict for $3,600,000. See Cooley v. Strickland Transportation Company, 5 Cir., 1972, 459 F.2d 779 (dissenting opinion). Nevertheless, as all lawyers and judges know, the juris*104prudence, under well defined principles, is replete with instances wherein directed verdicts and judgments notwithstanding the verdict were clearly required.
The massive loss sustained by the Railroad in the catastrophe of January 25, 1969, is more than enough to excite the concern of court and layman alike. Nevertheless, I must agree that the law, cogently demonstrated in the opinion so ably written by Judge Clark, inescapably points to the result herein directed.