Simmons v. Boyd

199 Va. 806 (1958)

RAYE HOLT SIMMONS

v.

BERNARD BOYD.

Record No. 4734.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

March 10, 1958.

Frank L. McKinney (Henry W. McLaughlin, Jr., on brief), for the plaintiff in error.

John W. Carter (Carter & Carter, on brief), for the defendant in error.

Present, All the Justices.

1. Plaintiff was injured when the car in which she was a passenger was struck by that driven by defendant. A verdict for $20,000 was set aside, the judge stating that the extent of plaintiff's injury, the size of the verdict, and the brief time the jury were out indicated that the jury might have been…