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DOOLITTLE v. WESTERN STATES MUT. INS. CO.

24 Wis.2d 135 (1964)

DOOLITTLE and wife, Respondents, v. WESTERN STATES MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY and others, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

June 2, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellants there was a brief by Mittelstaed, Heide, Sheldon & Hartley and William A. Sheldon, all of Kenosha, and oral argument by William A. Sheldon.

For the respondents there was a brief by Heft, Coates, Boggs & Heft of Racine, and oral argument by Carroll R. Heft.

GORDON, J.

The appellants contend that the jury's damage awards were excessive. They also urge that various errors were committed during the trial which provoked the allegedly excessive damage awards.

At the time of trial, which was approximately three years after the date of the accident, Myra Doolittle was seventy years of age, and George Doolittle was seventy-two years of age. There was evidence that before the accident they were both active individuals...

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