Parker v. Nakaoka

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

WAKATSUKI, J.

Plaintiff Susan Parker (Appellee), a pedestrian, was struck by a car driven by defendant Sheila Nakaoka (Appellant). By special verdict, a trial jury found the total amount of damages suffered by Parker as a proximate result of the accident to be $ 1,174.10 1 as special damages and $66,500 as general damages. The jury apportioned the negligence attributable to Nakaoka as eighty-two per cent and to Parker as eighteen per cent. Nakaoka appeals.

The dispositive issues in this appeal are: whether the trial judge, as a matter of law, or whether the jury, should…