Figueroa v. Davis

How courts have described this case

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• holding that fact-finder may choose to believe one witness over another
• noting that damages for pain and suffering are “necessarily speculative” and that each case should be judged on own facts
• stating that amount of damages awarded for pain and suffering is “necessarily speculative” and “each case must be judged on its own facts”
• noting that, given the lack of objective measures, so-long as some compensable mental anguish has béen established, the task of fixing the exact amount of damages is “generally left to the discretion of the fact finder”
• providing standard for factual sufficiency review of finding on which appellant did not have burden of proof
• loss of enjoyment of life, if separate from mental anguish and physical pain, is recoverable under physical impairment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).