Mays v. Vejo

Plaintiff appeals a judgment entered following a trial in which the jury awarded her $3,103.30 in economic damages and $1.00 in noneconomic damages arising from a car accident. Plaintiff advances three assignments of error. First, she assigns error to the trial court’s refusal to resubmit the verdict to the jury with a clarifying instruction regarding the award of noneconomic damages. Second, she assigns error to the trial court’s denial of her motion for a new trial. In essence, her position as to both the first and second assignments is the same — that because $1.00 constitutes only nominal…