Smee v. Checker Cab Co.

Appellant contends that the jury’s damage appraisals are excessive, unsupported by credible evidence, and based on conjecture and speculation. We agree that such is the case with respect to the figures for medical and hospital expense and loss of wages, but consider that the award for pain and suffering may be sustained.

Pam and suffering — $2,500. Viewing the testimony in the light most favorable to plaintiff, as we must, it makes a case substantially as follows:

The most-serious injury resulting from the accident was that to plaintiff’s head. There was a cut on the head which bled. When…