Birmingham Electric Co. v. Thompson

SIMPSON, Justice.

The plaintiff, a passenger in an automobile driven by 'her companion, was injured in a collision with a bus of the defendant in the city of Birmingham.

The principal insistence of error is the refusal of the trial court to grant a new trial on the ground of the excessiveness of the verdict. The verdict returned was $20,000 and, in acting on the motion for a new trial, the court ordered the verdict reduced to $14,000 with a remittitur of the excess, which was accepted by the plaintiff.

The court hás given careful consideration to the entire evidence. We have reached the…