Dahl v. Navy Yard Route

• Decision Date: 09 December 1924
• Docket Number: 18776.
• Parties: O. A. DAHL, Respondent, v. NAVY YARD ROUTE, a Corporation, Appellant.
• Court: Washington Supreme Court

230 P. 1119

131 Wash. 617

O. A. DAHL, Respondent, v. NAVY YARD ROUTE, a Corporation, Appellant.

No. 18776.

Supreme Court of Washington

December 9, 1924

Department 2. Appeal from Superior Court, King County; Tallman, Judge.

Bronson, Robinson & Jones, of Seattle, for appellant.

F. W. Moore, of Bremerton, and Tucker, Hyland & Elvidge, of Seattle, for respondent.

MACKINTOSH, J.

The only matter seriously argued in this personal injury action is that the jury returned a verdict in an excessive amount. The testimony shows that the plaintiff suffered a sacro-iliac sprain, and the amount of compensation awarded him was $2,600. The medical men called to testify by the respective parties differed somewhat as to whether other infirmities of the respondent were or were not the result of this sprain. On this conflicting testimony the jury were at liberty to choose that which best satisfied their minds and consciences, and evidently determined that the initial injury occasioned the pain and suffering of which the respondent complains. While the verdict is apparently fully compensatory, it is not so large that we are at liberty to substitute our estimate of what the monetary recompense should be for that of the jury. The judgment is affirmed.

MAIN, C.J., and HOLCOMB, FULLERTON, and MITCHELL, JJ., concur.