Hughes v. Schnavel

Appellee sued appellants on account of personal injuries sustained by Mm through the alleged negligence of appellants, and recovered a verdict in the sum of $525.00. The trial court, without assigning any reason for its action in so doing, so far as the record discloses, required appellee, as its condition for overruling a motion of appellants for a new trial, to enter a remittitur for $275.00, and on his doing so, entered judgment for appellee for the amount of $250.00. From such judgment is this appeal. The facts were: Appellants were constructing, of iron plates, a large water tank at…