Holland v. Southern Public Utilities Co.

The record discloses that the defendants, in apt time and in due form, requested the court to charge the jury as follows: “If you find that the $500.00 paid the plaintiff by the Southeastern Express Company was full and adequate compensation for his injuries, then, no matter what your answer may be to the other issues, the plaintiff would not be entitled to recover any further damages in this action, and you will answer the fourth issue Nothing.’ In other words, if the plaintiff has already been fully and adequately compensated for any injury which he may have sustained at the time of this…