Haws v. Bullock

OPINION

FRANKS, Judge.

This appeal presents the issue of whether an injured person may recover from a tort feasor, as an element of damages, for determinable pre-existing disabili ties where the injury has aggravated and increased the pre-existing disability. In this suit for damages from a personal injury received in an automobile accident, the plaintiff recovered a jury verdict of $16,-000.00, where the trial judge charged the affirmative on the stated issue.

Defendants, on appeal, raise as issues the jury verdict was excessive and the following portion of the instructions to the jury is…