Hodge v. Charleston Interurban Railroad

Poffenbarger, Judge:

Denying the existence of any legal flaw in her $4,000.00 verdict awarded as damages for a personal injury, the plaintiff in error complains of deprivation thereof by the grant of a new trial. Though lack of evidence to sustain the verdict, or preponderance of evidence in favor of the defendant, was one of the grounds of the motion for a new trial, it is not very extensively relied upon in the brief filed in support of the action of the court. More stress is placed upon alleged excessiveness of the verdict and improper argument to the jury, on the part of the attorney for…