Resto v. Metropolitan Distributors, Inc.

The jury rendered a verdict for $25,000 in favor of the plaintiff in this personal injury suit. After the verdict plaintiff requested 10 days in which to consider a motion to set the verdict aside as inadequate. Defendant moved to set the verdict aside as against the weight of evidence. Plaintiff has now decided not to make her motion.

Despite the substantial amount of the verdict, when contrasted with verdicts in like suits, it is obviously a compromise. Plaintiff is a young woman having just reached her majority. She was very seriously hurt when hit by defendant’s truck. The story she tells…