Blanton v. Tri-State Transit Co. of Louisiana, Inc.

The sole question involved in this appeal is whether this case should be remanded for assessment of damages by another jury. The verdict was for $200' in favor of Blanton, plaintiff below, who prosecutes this appeal and contends that the amount is so grossly inadequate as to require a new trial on the question of damages alone.

The damages consist of bodily injury, pain and suffering, resulting, as claimed by Blanton, from two distinct wrongs.

He was a passenger on a Tri-State bus from Calhoun City to Big Creek, Mississippi, a distance of some three or four miles; but at his request, and as an…