Opinion
June 21, 1943.
In an action by a plaintiff wife to recover damages for personal injuries sustained as the result of the alleged negligence of defendant in permitting coal gas to escape from a heating plant, and by her husband for expenses and loss of services, judgment in favor of plaintiffs and against the defendant, upon a verdict in favor of plaintiff wife in the sum of $3,200 and plaintiff husband in the sum of $300, reversed on the facts and a new trial granted, with costs to appellant to abide the event, unless within ten days from the entry of the order hereon plaintiff wife stipulate to reduce to $1,500 the amount of the verdict rendered in her favor, and plaintiff husband stipulate to reduce to $100 the amount of the verdict in his favor; in which event, the judgment, as so reduced, is unanimously affirmed, without costs. In our opinion, the verdict was excessive. Hagarty, Carswell, Adel, Taylor and Lewis, JJ., concur.