Davis v. Hilton

CROSS, Judge.

This is an action for damages for personal injuries plaintiff claims he sustained in a collision between an automobile he was driving and one operated by the defendant. The trial was to a jury which returned a verdict in favor of defendant. Plaintiff appeals from the adverse judgment.

Although plaintiff’s petition contains a prayer for judgment in the amount of $20,000.00, his counsel, in closing argument, asked the jury to return a verdict for plaintiff in the amount of $3500.00. Plaintiff’s good faith demand was thereby reduced from the amount prayed in his petition to the sum…