Court Opinion

ID: 9791009
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 02:03:12.145866+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:37:33.336325
License: Public Domain

HENRIOD, Justice
(concurring).
I concur. I feel inclined to add, however, that in my opinion the dissent suggests a subtle approval of the welfare state, the doctrine of liability without fault, an intimation that judges better might be employed as case workers, — all modern-trend eye-catchers, — and all presumably in the name of justice. The dissent, in saying “In view of such conflict it seems to me unfair that special verdicts favoring the plaintiff should be ignored and those favoring the defendant given effect. I would agree that the reverse is likewise true,” appears to be an endorsement of the strange doctrine that where a jury finds that a plaintiff was damaged in a certain amount but also finds that there is no liability on the part of defendant, the defendant should be required to pay anyway.