Proctor v. Department of Health & Environmental Control

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• stating appellate courts will not disturb a trial court's decision to grant a new trial nisi additur unless the trial court's findings are wholly unsupported by the evidence or the conclusions reached are controlled by an error of law
• great deference is given to the trial judge who saw and heard the evidence and who, as a result, possessed a better-informed view of the damages than the reviewing court
• \The grant or denial of new trial motions rests within the discretion of the trial [court] and [its] decision will not be disturbed on appeal unless [its] findings are wholly unsupported by the evidence or the conclusions reached are controlled by error of law.\

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