Holder v. Petty

This is an action for damages for personal injuries to a six-year-old boy who was hit by defendant’s automobile. Plaintiff appeals from a judgment based on a jury verdict awarding $2,000 in general damages and $300 in special damages.

Plaintiff has assigned as error the refusal of the trial court to give that portion of the Oregon State Bar Uniform Jury Instruction No. 30.02 on general damages which would have instructed the jury that if it found that plaintiff was entitled to damages the items of general damages which it was to consider were to include:

“Such sum as will reasonably compensate…