Wallender v. Michas

This is an action for damages for personal injuries resulting from an automobile accident. Defendant appeals from a judgment for plaintiff in the sum of $4,800.

Defendant assigns as error the failure of the trial judge to strike testimony by one of plaintiff’s doctors that her alleged difficulty in controlling her left hand was a “conversion hysterical response.” In support of this assignment defendant contends: (1) Plaintiff’s complaint only alleged “mental anguish,” which did “not apprise defendant” that plaintiff suffered a “conversion hysterical response;” (2) plaintiff’s doctor did “not…