Bernstein v. Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Co.

Plaintiff in error contends that there is an attempt to increase and magnify the damages; that a less number of articles were injured than claimed and that the amount claimed to have been paid out for repairs, upon furniture injured, was not shown to be reasonable or necessary.

As to this last mentioned contention, it it true, as a general proposition, that it was incumbent upon defendants in error to prove that they paid, for repairing or restoring the broken furniture, no more than a reasonable price, at the time in question, for doing such work. But the consequences of improperly objecting…