Platt v. City of Ottumwa

Plaintiff asked damages for permanent injuries, pain and suffering, and the necessary expenses of nursing and medical attendance, suing in her own right and also as assignee of her husband. Evidence was introduced tending to show the expense of assistance necessarily procured in carrying on the housework which she had been performing before the injury, the charges for medical attendance, and the husband’s loss of wages while nursing the plaintiff. There was evidence of plaintiff’s loss of earnings in her occupation as a dressmaker. In addition to these items of actual expense, there was…