Daniel v. Sharpe Const. Co., Inc.

Rhodes, Justice:

These appeals involve a wrongful death action. The plaintiff’s decedent was killed as a result of a collision between her automobile and a truck owned by the defendant. The jury returned a verdict .for $125,000 actual damages. The trial judge granted the defendant’s motion for a new trial nisi, ordering a new trial unless plaintiff agreed to remit the portion of the verdict in excess of $87,500. Both parties have appealed and, finding the exceptions of both to be without merit, we dismiss the respective appeals with the result that, plaintiff having failed to remit, the case…