Brown v. Moore

SHARP, Chief Justice.

On her appeal to the Court of Appeals, plaintiff assigned as error the court’s refusal to set the verdict aside. Inter alia, she contended the award of damages was inadequate as a matter of law “because absolutely no value was placed on the life of plaintiff’s intestate” and the court’s refusal to set the verdict aside was “an abuse of discretion.” With reference to this assignment, the Court of Appeals held that whether the verdict should be set aside was in the discretion of the trial judge, and the plaintiff had failed to show “an abuse of discretion.” In this Court,…