Schunk v. Brown

Judgment unanimously affirmed, with costs. Memorandum: Defendant, owner of an automobile which collided with one operated by plaintiff, injuring her, appeals from a judgment awarding damages for personal injuries in favor of plaintiff Betty T. Schunk in the sum of $70,000 and in favor of plaintiff Eugene A. Schunk, her husband, on his derivative action in the sum of $32,000. Defendant makes three contentions on this appeal, first, that the trial court erred in permitting the jury to speculate that there was causal relation between plaintiff wife’s kidney and ureter conditions for which she…