Opinion
Argued January 7th, 1920
Decided March 5th, 1920.
ACTION to recover damages for injuries to the person and property of the plaintiff, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendants' servant in operating an automobile upon the highway, brought to the Superior Court in New London County and tried to the jury before Reed, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $1,000, and appeal by the defendants. No error.
George C. Morgan, for the appellants (defendants).
Tracy Waller, for the appellee (plaintiff).
The injuries complained of were caused by a collision between a wagon driven by the plaintiff and an automobile driven by one of the defendants. Five passengers in the plaintiff's wagon testified more or less clearly to facts from which the jury might reasonably have found that the defendant was negligent and that the plaintiff was in the exercise of due care.
As to the issue of damages. The doctor who attended the plaintiff at the time of the injury was overseas, but there was testimony that the plaintiff had been more or less disabled ever since the accident, and expert opinion evidence that the plaintiff was suffering from partial paralysis of the right arm of probably traumatic origin, which would impair its efficiency about fifty per cent. The verdict was justified by the evidence.