Chapman v. King

STONE, Judge.

In this jury-tried damage suit for personal injuries resulting from a vehicular collision, plaintiff Mrs. Wilma Chapman had judgment for $500 against defendant Mrs. Mason H. King. On this appeal by plaintiff, her complaints are that the verdict “was so grossly inadequate as to indicate bias and prejudice of the jury,” that the trial court abused his discretion in refusing to grant plaintiff a new trial on the ground of newly-discovered evidence, and that the court erred in giving defendant’s instructions 8, 9 and 10.

The transcript on appeal, as it came to us, raised a question as…