Thomas P. Chronis v. Crown Motor Freight Company

This is one of the comparatively rare instances where a victorious plaintiff is dissatisfied with the amount of his verdict. He has moved to set it aside as being contrary to the evidence and the law and as being inadequate.

In argument upon the motion his counsel restricted himself to the claim that the ruling of the court in limiting plaintiff’s counsel to one hour in argument constituted an abuse of discretion and that, had chief counsel had more time in his closing argument to exert his powers of persuasion upon the jury, the verdict would not have been a disappointment.

Section 5648 of the…