Stier v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.

Defendants contend that the jury’s awards to Carol Stier of $2,500 for pain and suffering and $500 for permanent injury are grossly excessive. On October 2, 1944, —when she was six and one-half years of age, — she was injured upon being knocked down to the street pavement by defendant Nichols’ automobile; and sustained a clean fracture in the middle third of the femur of the right leg. She was immediately taken to a hospital and confined there until December 18, 1944. X rays taken there revealed the fracture, and the leg was placed by her attending physician, Dr. Pratt, in a 'traction splint…