Delott v. Roraback

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• plaintiff entitled to compensation for earning impairment even though plaintiffs income tax returns showed loss for years in question
• defendant's failure to plead contributory negligence \preclude[s] any inquiry on her part into antecedent acts of negligence by the plaintiff\
• defendant’s failure to plead contributory negligence “preclude [s] any inquiry on her part into antecedent acts of negligence by the plaintiff’
• evidence of loss of earning capacity need not be established with exactness as long as it affords the jury a basis for a reasonable estimate
• “[a] plaintiff may recover damages in a personal injury action for pain and suffering even when such pain and suffering is evidenced exclusively by the plaintiffs subjective complaints”
• within province of trier of fact to credit plaintiff's testimony concerning earning capacity

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