Light v. Mason

Johnson, Judge.

A jury awarded Edward and Roseanne Mason compensatory and punitive damages totaling $30,000 on their nuisance claim against their neighbor, Charles Light. Light appeals, asserting that there was no evidence to support the verdict and that the verdict is so excessive as to shock the conscience of a reasonable person.

1. “Where a jury returns a verdict and it has the approval of the trial judge, the same must be affirmed on appeal if there is any evidence to support it as the jurors are the sole and exclusive judges of the weight and credit given the evidence. . . . The appellate…