Bishop v. Gaudio

This action was brought to recover damages for personal injuries to a girl five years of age, occasioned by the conceded negligence of defendants in the operation of a truck upon a public highway. Defendants prosecute an appeal from a judgment of $5,000, claiming it to be grossly excessive and aver errors upon the trial.

The little girl received a compound fracture of the right arm, fractured clavicle, ruptured bladder, tearing of the clavicle from the sternum and dislocation thereof in part, cuts, bruises, and injury to her left chest. Her injuries produced extreme nervousness, loss of…