The responsibility of defendants-appellants for plaintiff's injuries seems to us to present a fair issue of fact. We regard the verdict, as reduced from $50,000 to $40,000 by the court to fit within the demand of the complaint, as still excessive. The jury could have found that plaintiff sustained a simple fracture of the kneecap about one inch long; an incomplete fracture of the left wrist and a herniated cervical disc. The neurosurgeon testified that the herniation of the...
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