Kent v. Los Angeles Railway Corp.

This is an appeal from an order granting a motion for a new trial. The jury bad returned a verdict in the sum of $25,436, upon which judgment had been entered. The court granted the motion upon the ground, among others, of “excessive damages given under the influence of passion”.

The plaintiff, a blind girl seventeen years of age, was a passenger of the defendant and stepped down from the rear end of the car and into an open switch box, three and three-quarter inches wide and more than five inches in depth. The plaintiff was injured, the bones of one of her legs being broken. The jury found…