Dyke v. Seattle Electric Co.

Citations

• 55 Wash. 687
• 105 P. 137
• 1909 Wash. LEXIS 822

Syllabus

<p>Damages — Personal Injuries — Excessive Verdict. A verdict for $3,700, for personal injuries sustained by a passenger in a collision of street cars, approved by tbe trial judge, will not be disturbed as excessive, where testimony of equal credibility is conflicting as to whether there was any injury at all, two disinterested physicians testifying to injury to the spine from shock which would likely be permanent, and for which the verdict was hardly compensatory, and two physicians, appointed by the court, testifying that the plaintiff had no serious trouble of any kind.</p>