O'quinn v. Douglas
Decision Date | 20 January 1910 |
Docket Number | (No. 2,005.) |
Citation | 7 Ga.App. 309,66 S.E. 810 |
Parties | O'QUINN. v. DOUGLAS, A. & G. RY. CO. |
Court | Georgia Court of Appeals |
In a suit brought by a passenger against a railroad company to recover damages for personal injuries, a verdict was rendered for the plaintiff in the sum of $4,300. There was conflict in the evidence as to the plaintiff's contributory negligence. On his motion for a new trial, held, that any error of law relating to the defendant's liability was rendered harmless by the verdict, unless it was such as might have influenced the jury to reduce the amount that the plaintiff was entitled to recover.
[Ed. Note.—For other cases, see New Trial, Cent. Dig. §§ 40, 41; Dec. Dig. § 27.*]
There was no error of law in the admission of evidence, or in the charge of the court, which could have affected injuriously or materially the amount of the damages that the plaintiff was entitled to recover.
The amount of the verdict was exclusively a question for the determination of the jury under all the evidence.
[Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Damages, Cent. Dig. §§ 533, 534; Dec. Dig. § 208.*]
(Syllabus by the Court.)
Error from City Court of Nashville; H. B. Peeples, Judge.
Action by J. H. O'Quinn against the Doug las, Augusta & Gulf Railway Company. From a judgment granting inadequate relief, plaintiff brings error. Affirmed.
J. R. Walker and Hendricks & Christian, for plaintiff in error.
Wm. H. Barrett, J. W. Quincey, and W. D. Brice, for defendant In error.
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