Mississippi Road Supply Co. v. Baker

INZER, Justice.

This is an appeal by Mississippi Road Supply Company, a corporation, from a judgment of the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Chickasaw County, *822wherein appellee, Miss Virginia Baker, obtained a judgment for $15,000 as damages for personal injuries resulting from an automobile accident which she alleged was caused by the negligence of appellant’s servant in turning its vehicle into appellee’s lane of traffic. Upon a motion for a new trial the circuit court found that a verdict of the jury fixing the damages at $15,000 was so excessive as to evidence bias, passion…