Duncan v. City of Shreveport

DIXON, Judge.

The only question presented for decision on this appeal is whether an award for personal injuries should be increased.

Plaintiff, a forty-nine year old salesman, was seriously injured in an intersectional collision when he was struck by a police car. He suffered a displaced vertebra in the neck and fractures of facial bones, as well as other less serious, but related, injuries.

Plaintiff complains in his appeal that the trial judge did not grant enough to compensate him for his loss of earnings, and refused to award him anything for the emotional disability which he contends was…