Knox v. Simmons

AHRENS, Judge.

Plaintiff in this personal injury case appeals from the judgment of the trial court, which applied additur to raise the amount of the jury verdict for plaintiff. Plaintiff contends that: (1) additur was inappropriate in that he should have been granted a new trial; (2) the trial court erred in limiting the testimony of plaintiff’s expert witness; and (3) there was insufficient evidence to support two of the instructions submitted. We affirm.

The case arises from a collision on or near a single-lane bridge on a gravel road between a passenger car and a dump truck hauling a load of…