Sutherland v. Keene

In these two cases, growing out of an automobile collision and tried together below, the defend ant, Mrs. F. M. Sutherland, has appealed in error and assigned errors raising as the principal grounds for reversal the kinship of one of the jurors to plaintiff, Jack Keene, and that the jury improperly discussed, and were improperly influenced by, the possibility that Mrs. Sutherland carried public liability insurance on her automobile. Other assignments raise the question that the verdict, even as reduced by remittitur suggested by the trial judge, is excessive; that the undisputed proof shows…