Lee v. Blessing

Minnie Lee, hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff, was injured in an automobile accident. She had a verdict of $10,000 based on a traumatic cancer of the breast. The parties stipulated, in effect, that if there was evidence from which the jury could reasonably infer a causal connection between the trauma and the cancer the verdict should stand; if there was no such evidence, the verdict should be set aside as excessive.

The accident occurred on December 24, 1942. The plaintiff was taken to the East Hartford Hospital, where she remained until January 9, 1943. She had, among other injuries, a…