Hairston v. Atlantic Greyhound Corp.

Tbe defendant assigns as error tbe following excerpt from tbe trial judge’s charge to tbe jury: “Nominal damages, gentlemen, are construed to be, say $1.00, $10.00, $15.00, $50.00 — some nominal damages, and if you reach this issue and you find be is not damaged more than what is a nominal sum of money, you are to answer this, then, in a nominal sum of money unless you find that tbe sum of $55.00 paid to him and bis lawyer and bis doctor is a full, just and complete settlement already. . . . Tbe defendant says, therefore, on this issue you ought not to allow any amount of • nominal damages,…