Markowitz v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co.

The following opinion was filed February 9, 1937:

Fairchild, J.

The difficulties experienced by the trial court in this case are fully appreciated. The testimony of plaintiff of severe injuries; the likelihood of their having occurred through her own fault or misfortune; the fact that *350no one supposes it is the purpose of the law to permit one to claim anything he finds necessary to sustain his case and to consider that claim evidence; the knowledge that such words as “awful” as in common use very often are exaggerations of speech, and when inquired into are found not to mean severe and…