Van Pelt v. Richards Paint & Paper Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Harvey, J.:

Plaintiff recovered a judgment for $16,125 for personal injuries sustained in an automobile casualty. Defendants have appealed and contend that the court erred in not sustaining their motion to strike out the testimony of certain of plaintiff’s witnesses and that the verdict is excessive.

The case was here before (Van Pelt v. Richards Paint & Paper Co., 132 Kan. 581, 296 Pac. 737), when a judgment for $18,000 in plaintiff’s favor was reversed because plaintiff’s counsel persisted in injecting into the trial before the jury the inference that…