Rubel v. Grossman

KIRKPATRICK, District Judge.

This is a motion to dismiss a diversity suit on the ground that no recovery of the jurisdictional amount is possible. There is before the Court the plaintiff’s pretrial deposition together with the medical reports from the doctors who examined her.

The plaintiff suffered a back injury in an automobile accident on December 19, 1960. She was taken to a hospital but received no treatment or bandaging there and, after a couple of hours, was driven home where she remained in bed for about a week. She was a student at a nearby college and was able to return to college at…