Harris v. Scher
New York Supreme Court
Appeal by the defendant Scker from an order of the City Court of the city of New York, setting aside a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, on the ground that the damages awarded were insufficient.
1Per curiam
The action was for personal injuries. Ho defense was offered. The plaintiff secured a verdict for *289three hundred dollars, which the defendants do not contest, hut which, upon plaintiff’s motion, was set aside as inadequate. The plaintiff furnished a hill of particulars from which it appeared that he had been earning twelve dollars a week, and lost this sum for a period of seventeen weeks, during which he was unable to work; also that he paid about eighty dollars for doctor’s fees, and twenty to twenty-five dollars for medicines. All these sums, two hundred and four dollars loss of earnings…
2Cited by4 opinions
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