Hope Windows, Inc. v. Snyder

This action was instituted by Charles Snyder, plaintiff, against Hope Windows, Inc., and Chester L. Dove, defendants, to recover the sum of $25,000 for personal injuries and property damages resulting when a truck owned by Hope Windows, Inc., and operated by its agent, Dove, collided with plaintiff’s automobile.

A jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the amount of $25,000, and the trial judge put him on terms to accept an award of $15,000 or face a new trial, on the grounds that the verdict bore no reasonable relation to the injuries and it shocked his conscience. Plaintiff accepted…