Murphy v. Lachmund Lumber & Coal Co.

The proof establishes without conflict that Merton Murphy sustained serious injuries which caused severe pain and confined him to his bed and to the house for several weeks. The assessment of one dollar as compensation for his injuries and for the pain and suffering sustained is so totally inadequate as to shock the sense of any fair-minded man. Under repeated decisions of this court such a grossly inadequate assessment of damages is evidence of perversity on the part of the jury which will lead to setting aside the verdict and granting a new trial, unless it can be said that the finding that…