Adams v. Gardner

This was an action to recover damages for driving against and breaking the plaintiff’s phaeton, wherein, on trial before the court below, without a jury, judgment was rendered for the plaintiff for $132.50, and the defendant appealed.

The plaintiff on the trial testified that the reach, one of the shafts and the dash board of his vehicle were broken, both the axles were sprung and the top was bent; that the cost of the repairs was $17.50, and he further testified, against objection, that the phaeton was worth, he considered, at least $100 less after it had been broken and repaired than before…