Legal Opinion · Concurrence

Coulthard v. Cossairt

Wyoming Supreme Court

Decided December 14, 1990No. 89-230, 89-231Published

1Concurrence

*94URBIGKIT, Chief Justice,

specially concurring.

I concur, but write further in analysis that the proven injury in this case reasonably justified the damage award and we need not apply an extreme test for what was fairly and reasonably determined by jury verdict. Specifically, I question our continued lack of judicial responsibility in jury supervision encompassed within characterizations of “shock[ing] the judicial conscience”, “an irresistible inference that passion, prejudice or other improper cause had invaded the trial[ ]” or “so excessive as to strike mankind, at the first blush, as being…

2Cases cited29 opinions

  1. Quick v. CraneIdaho Supreme Court · 1986
  2. Dinneen v. FinchIdaho Supreme Court · 1979
  3. Lassitter v. Intern. Union of Op. Engin.Supreme Court of Florida · 1977
  4. Sanchez v. GaleyIdaho Supreme Court · 1987
  5. Brittain v. BoothWyoming Supreme Court · 1979

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