Huggard v. Glucose Sugar Refining Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Scott District Court, Hon. A. J. House, Judge. Action to recover damages for injuries received by plaintiff while in defendant’s employ due to the fall of a piece of gas pipe from an upper story of defendant’s building upon him. There was a trial to a jury resulting in a verdict and judgment for plaintiff in the sum of $32,916, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
That plaintiff received very serious and permanent injuries resulting from the fall of a piece of *727gas pipe while he was engaged in defendant’s employment, producing practically complete paralysis of the lower half of his body, is virtually conceded, or at least established by the verdict of the jury upon sufficient evidence. Various rulings made by the court during the trial of the case below are complained of and it is also strenuously argued that the verdict has no support in the evidence, was the result of passion or prejudice, and that considering the whole record no judgment could…
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