Panepinto v. Morrison Hotel, Inc.

The jury in this personal injury case returned a verdict for $100,000 in favor of plaintiff. Defendant’s post-trial motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict was denied. The court also denied defendant’s motion for a new trial, but on the condition that plaintiff accept a remittitur of $65,000. When plaintiff refused to do this, a new trial was granted as to both liability and damages. We allowed plaintiff to file an appeal from that interlocutory order.

We shall first relate the facts as presented through the testimony of plaintiff and her witnesses.

On September 27, 1957, plaintiff and…