Mrs. Anna Smith v. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company

Plaintiff-appellant, a lady 77 years old, was struck by defendant’s truck. Upon trial of her suit against the Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company, a jury awarded her $1,400.93. She claims the_ verdict was inadequate After the accident, and against her wishes, appellant was taken to a hospital where, as described by her family physician, she was mostly an angry woman.” This was on September 28, 1961, at Corbin, Kentucky. Her doctor had x-rays taken which, in his view, merely disclosed extensive arthritic degeneration of her vertebrae, with no evidence of any injury resulting from her…