Dade County v. McKenna

SWANN, Judge.

On the afternoon of December 30, 1960 the plaintiff, Patricia L. McKenna, was hit by a boy on a bicycle as she left a bus operated by the defendant, Dade County, Florida, a/k/a Metropolitan Dade County Transit Authority. She and her husband, John C. McKenna, sued the transit authority and its driver, Ferrill Law, and obtained jury verdicts of $4,000.00 and $250.00, respectively.

The defendants filed a motion for remit-titur, or, in the alternative, for a new trial as to the verdict rendered in favor of the plaintiff husband in the sum of $250.00, on the ground that it was…