Haleem v. Onate

The sole question raised by this appeal is the adequacy of damages awarded to three plaintiffs for personal injuries sustained in a motor vehicle collision. The plaintiffs rely chiefly on the fact that the damages awarded to them by the jury amount to less than their expenses for medical treatment and lost earnings.

The accident occurred on June 4, 1962, when the defendant’s automobile, going ten miles an hour or less, struck the rear of the plaintiffs’ vehicle which was stopped in a line of traffic on 63rd Street in Chicago. The impact appears to have been light: there was no damage to the…