Marr v. Saginaw County Agricultural Society

A jury awarded plaintiff $13,500 damages for injuries received while rescuing a lady from defendant’s burning building.

In this appeal defendant concedes liability, but claims plaintiff’s final argument to the jury constituted reversible error and that the verdict of the jury was excessive.

Appellant claims reversible error because the court allowed “plaintiff’s counsel in final argument to the jury to use a mathematical formula suggesting dollar amounts and intervals of time to be used by the jury in arriving at an amount for past and future pain and suffering.” Plaintiff’s attorney in closing…