Sonson Et Vir v. J. C. Penney Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Linn,

Defendant appeals from judgments on verdicts for husband and wife in this action for damages for personal injuries sustained by the wife. The trial involved the difficulty of showing what, if any, disability resulted from an accident as distinguished from disability attributable to the natural progress of heart disease from which the wife-plaintiff was suffering at the time of the accident. Each plaintiff received a verdict of $7,000, which, in the wife’s case, was reduced by the trial court to $4,500. Judgments were then entered in favor of the husband for $7,000…