Buswell v. City & County of San Francisco

Appeal by defendant city and county of San Francisco 1 from a judgment after a jury verdict in a personal injury action in favor of plaintiffs in the sum of $14,000. A motion for a new trial was denied. Liability is not denied. Two points are urged: (1) that the verdict is excessive; and (2) that the instructions on damages were erroneous. 2

Only a brief summary of the facts of the accident is necessary. On July 10, 1946, plaintiff was returning to Market Street in San Francisco from Fisherman’s Wharf on a Powell Street cable car owned and operated by the defendant city and county. As the car…