Legal Opinion
Kearney D. Spears v. Glenn L. Hough
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 21, 1972No. 71-1128PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VAN PELT, Senior District Judge.
This is an appeal by the plaintiff-appellant in a personal injury action, arising out of a pheasant hunting accident in South Dakota on October 17, 1965. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff but assessed his damages as “none.” Judgment was entered that plaintiff recover nothing from the accident. A timely motion for new trial was filed and overruled. We affirm the trial court.
The question on appeal is whether under the evidence a jury could find for plaintiff as it did and then return a verdict of no damage.
Plaintiff, a dentist from Memphis, Tennessee, and…
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