Dunn v. Easley

CATES, Judge.

Mr. Dunn, the plaintiff below, appeals from a judgment in his favor. He assigns as error the trial judge’s overruling his *52motion for new trial. He says there was manifest error because the jury’s award for $804.77 was legally inadequate.

If a man loses an eye from a hunting companion’s wild shot, has a jury given him inadequate damages in awarding him only (albeit precisely) the sum of his medical and hospital bills ?

We state the tendencies of the evidence implicit in the verdict: Messrs. Dunn and Easley were on a dove shoot. Another man’s shot crippled a bird. It came on toward…