Court Opinion

ID: 9532914
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:26:12.629454+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:28:52.220190
License: Public Domain

Otis, Justice
(dissenting).
I dissent. An award of $5,000 invested at 4 percent will yield in principal and interest the sum of only $233 a year during the expected span of Terrance Krueger’s life. He has experienced an 81-percent permanent disability of the left arm and a 90-percent permanent disability of the left hand. In my opinion, for a boy Í6V2 years old, the verdict is inadequate as a matter of law.
*160Without reference to the other elements of damages, plaintiff’s vocational limitations alone require an additur in recognition of his reduced earning capacity. I would grant a new trial on the issue of damages unless defendant Wohlers consents to an additur of $5,000.