Central Cab Co. v. Morrison

Griffith, O. J.

On the issue of liability, the verdict is not so plainly against the great or overwhelming weight of the evidence as to justify our interference with it, but we have entertained some concern on the complaint of excessiveness in the amount awarded, which was $3,500.00.

The principal injury to the plaintiff, a business man of mature age, was a fracture of the humerus bone of the right arm. The physician denominated it as “a severe fracture—what is called a comminuted impacted fracture.” The physician was not called on to explain the quoted term, but the import of his entire…