Marsh v. Atkins

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• FELA case; Court notes “ ‘convincing testimony not refuted ... demonstrating the steady wage increases in recent times for work equivalent to that rendered by the plaintiff, and the strong likelihood that similar increases would continue.’ ”
• both cases recognize practice of remittitur of conditional new trial in federal courts
• affirming district court's denial to set aside jury award
• “ ‘We must give the benefit of every doubt to the judgment of the trial judge; but surely there must be an upper limit, and whether that has been surpassed is not a question of fact with respect to which reasonable men may differ, but a question of law.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).