Harpman v. Devine, Recr.

From a perusal of the record, it is difficult to understand why the jury awarded the plaintiff the sum of $3000, or why the trial court permitted such verdict to stand.

Exaggeration, evasiveness and lack of candor characterized plaintiff’s testimony to a marked degree. If plaintiff received a bump on the back of the head, as he says he did, that, with perhaps an accompanying stiffness of the neck muscles, was the extent of his in jury on July 6, 1934. He was able to busy himself immediately with investigating the cause of the broken window, climbing onto the roof of an adjoining building in…