Gering v. Nicholville Telephone Co.

Appeals by plaintiff wife in a personal injury negligence action and by her husband in its derivative counterpart from orders denying their motions to set aside verdicts in the respective sums of $5,000 and $1,500 upon the ground of inadequacy. They appeal also from the judgments entered thereon. While using the telephone equipment of defendant on July 26, 1958 plaintiff wife, aged 37 years, testified that she received an electric shock which caused her to fall to the floor of her home and to lose consciousness. *946Artificial respiration administered by her husband resuscitated her. She suffered…