Koehn v. Hooper

This petition for certiorari presents two questions, namely: (1) Did the Trial Judge and the Court of Appeals err in refusing a remittitur on account of the excessive amount of the verdict? (2) Did the Court of Appeals err in refusing to consider the propriety of the action of the Trial Judge in refusing certain special requests?'

The two lower Courts have agreed on all points of law and fact. In the Circuit Court of Davidson County, Plaintiff recovered a verdict for $15,000 for the wrongful death of her eight-year-old daughter, who was killed' as she was leaving school in Nashville, as a…