Dollar Inn, Inc. v. Slone

OPINION

GARRARD, Judge.

Dollar Inn, Inc. (“Dollar”) appeals the jury verdict in favor of Patsy Slone (“Slone”), claiming that the trial court erred by denying Dollar’s motion for judgment on the evidence, that the trial court erred by refusing to give its tendered jury instruction # 2, and, alternatively, that the jury verdict was excessive.

We affirm.

FACTS

This appeal arises out of an injury Slone sustained on the morning of September 29, 1988, while staying as a guest at the Dollar Inn. On that morning, Slone was stabbed in the thumb by a hypodermic needle concealed inside the center tube of a…