Lombard v. Cory

DONALDSON, Justice.

This case involves the issues of whether damages awarded by the jury for injuries sustained by plaintiffs-appellants are sufficient and whether the jury determined the amount of damages awarded by means of a quotient verdict.

On September 28, 1969, plaintiffs-appellants, Ernest and Delcine Lombard, together with their three children, were returning to their home in Boise from Eden, Idaho. They were passing through Mountain Home at about 9:00 o’clock p. m. when their car was struck by a pickup truck driven by defendant-respondent Emer Cory, who had just pulled out of a cafe…