DeMay v. Carper

The plaintiffs below, now appellants, having been given by the jury what they consider to be inadequate verdicts in a personal injury case, seek reversals on the ground that counsel for the defendant made prejudicial remarks in his opening statement.

Suit was brought by Joseph DeMay, who was then eighteen, for “serious, painful and permanent injuries” to his limbs and body and “his nerves and nervous system,” and by his father (for loss of services and reimbursement of medical expenses) against the driver of a car that ran into the rear of the parked car in which Joseph was sitting.

Counsel for…