Klein v. Swift & Company

Plaintiff’s suit was for damage to his automobile and personal injuries sustained in a collision with a truck owned by the defendant Swift & Company and driven by its employee, the defendant Farwell. Upon trial, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff against both defendants in the sum of $8595.45. Thereafter the trial court granted the defendants’ motion for new trial, and we have this appeal by the plaintiff.

The grounds of the motion which were sustained were four in number: 7, that the verdict was excessive and the result of passion and prejudice; 9, that the verdict was a quotient…