Morris v. Fortier

Defendants appeal from a judgment awarding plaintiffs $10,187.93 for the death of their son, Louis Morris. The jury verdict was for $15,000 plus funeral expenses in an amount not fixed in the verdict but admitted at the trial to be $187.93. As a condition to denying the motion for a new trial the trial court required that plaintiffs remit $4,812.07. The remission was filed, the motion for new trial denied, and judgment entered in the amount above indicated.

The son, Louis Morris, was killed in a highway collision between a Ford truck in which he was riding and which his brother, Henry Morris,…