Kaplan v. Mashkin Freight Lines, Inc.

The defendants in this action for negligence have appealed from a judgment entered upon a jury’s verdict for the plaintiff. They assign error in the denial of their motion to set the verdict aside, in rulings concerning the use of medical treatises in the direct and cross examination of expert medical witnesses and the argument to the jury, and in the finding. The defendants admitted liability and the case was tried on the issue of damages only.

A summary of the finding, with certain corrections, follows: The plaintiff, who at the time of the accident was fifty-nine years old, claimed to have…