Wimmer v. Chicago Railways Co.

2. Damages, § 110*—when verdict for permanent injuries is not excessive. A verdict for $6,400 in favor of a woman who was thrown from a street car, held not excessive, where it appeared that plaintiff sustained a fracture of the arm, and immediate efforts to set it resulted in failure; that thereafter plaintiff was admitted to a hospital where she was operated on and remained eleven days; that the arm was then in a east for five weeks and thereafter was carried in a sling; that after nine months plaintiff, on attempting to resume her work of stenography and bookkeeping, was unable to do so…