Christoffersen v. Weir

This suit was brought to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by reason of defendant’s alleged negligence in driving his car against plaintiff while she was crossing Farnam street at Fourteenth street in Omaha. She recovered a verdict for $1,200. A motion for a new trial was overruled on condition that plaintiff file a remittitur for $350. Upon compliance with the court’s requirement, judgment was rendered for $850, and defendant appealed.

Briefly plaintiff’s account of the accident is that at about 6:30 or'7 o’clock in the evening of December 19, 1920, she left the north front door…