Lewis v. Ingles

JsPUFRESNE, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal by Alexander Lewis and Thaddeus Bazile, plaintiffs-appellants, from a judgment in their favor in this rear-end automobile collision case. This was a bench trial. In his reasons for judgment the trial judge noted that plaintiffs had shown that the accident had aggravated their pre-existing spinal disc problems, but also that they were exaggerating the severity and the duration of this aggravation. Based on these findings, each plaintiff was awarded only a portion of his medical bills, and $6,000 in general damages. Because we find neither legal nor…