Hoff v. Yellow Cab Co.

This is a personal injury action. At the conclusion of all the evidence the court sustained the plaintiff’s motion for a directed verdict on the issue of liability. On the issue of damages the jury awarded the plaintiff $15,000. The defendant contends in this appeal that the trial court erred in refusing to give one .of its instructions and in limiting the cross-examination of one of the plaintiff’s medical witnesses; he further contends that the verdict was excessive.

The plaintiff Harry Hoff, who was 63 years of age at the time he was injured, was employed as a truck driver by Hoff Brothers…