Gallentine v. Richardson

Plaintiff, while on a deer hunt with defendant near Elko, Nevada, received a gunshot wound and brought suit to recover for injury. A jury, by a 9-3 vote, awarded damages against defendant in the sum of $522.60, the exact amount of the special damages stipulated by the parties. Plaintiff appeals from that portion of the judgment assessing damages on the grounds of inadequacy thereof.

The award of damages by the jury’s verdict was inadequate. Plaintiff suffered a demonstrated injury as a result of defendant’s negligence in firing his riñe in the direction of plaintiff, the bullet striking him in…