Combs v. Combs

HOLLINGSWORTH, Judge.

Plaintiff sued to recover the sum. of $35,000 for personal injuries sustained when an automobile operated by defendant, in which plaintiff was a passenger, crashed into a concrete bridge abutment on Pligh-way No. 21 near Belleview, Missouri. The jury returned a verdict and judgment was entered in his favor for the sum of $15,-000. Defendant’s motion for new trial was overruled on condition plaintiff remit the sum of $5,000, which plaintiff refused to do, whereupon the motion was sustained and a new trial was granted defendant on the ground of excessiveness of the verdict.…