Jackiewicz v. United Illuminating Co.

The trial court ordered the verdict set aside conditionally on three grounds, (1) that there had been no evidence of pecuniary loss to the plaintiff from loss of earnings of his minor son, (2) that the instruction of the court upon this subject was inadequate, and (3) that the verdict in favor of the minor son had probably included the amount awarded the parent in this case for loss of the son’s earnings during his minority and hence was excessive.

Nothing appears in the record which enables us to know, or which enabled the trial court to know, that the jury included, in the action brought in…