Crowe v. Sacks

Defendant appeals from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict in favor of plaintiffs Crowe and Lowe in the sums of $8,500 and $11,000 respectively, in a personal injury action arising out of an automobile collision.

The principal error urged on appeal is that the trial court committed prejudicial error (1) in telling the jury after its proposed verdict was brought in (but before it was recorded) that the amounts awarded were “grossly inadequate” and (2) in sending the jury back to redeliberate. Defendant asks that the original verdict (in the amounts of $2,500 and $3,000, respectively) be…