CULPEPPER, Judge.
Mrs. Lucille Stelly Fitzgerald seeks damages for personal injuries received in an automobile collision caused by defendant's insured. The district judge awarded $4,500 in general damages. Defendant appealed.
The sole issue on appeal is whether the award is excessive.
On July 26, 1964 Mrs. Fitzgerald was a passenger on the front seat of a vehicle which slowed suddenly for an emergency on the open highway. It was struck from the rear...
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