Ward v. Stanley

The defendant in error brought a common law action against the plaintiff in error and recovered a verdict in the sum of five thousand dollars for personal injuries. The trial court entered a remittitur for five hundred dollars which was accepted and final judgment was entered for $4,500.00 to which the instant writ of error was prosecuted.

The plaintiff in error, Goram Ward, was the driver of a timber truck for Brown-Florida Lumber Company at Court Martial Lake in Bay County, Defendant in Error, William H. Stanley, was a log cutter working for the same company and lived at Vernon, Florida. On…