Galvan v. Summers

On March. 17, 1960 plaintiff’s husband was injured in an automobile accident proximately caused by defendant’s negligence. Plaintiff and her husband brought separate suits, consolidated for trial, against defendant, plaintiff alleging loss of consortium. The jury returned verdicts of $1 for plaintiff and $3,000 for her husband. Plaintiff appeals from the trial court’s denial of her motion for new trial.

Plaintiff first argues that the verdict for $1 should be reversed as grossly inadequate because:

“The uneontradieted testimony in evidence was to the effect that she did massage her husband’s…