The issue of damages is factual and thus is essentially a determination for the jury. It is only where it can be said that a verdict is clearly excessive that an interference with it and the trial court's considered evaluation thereof is warranted. That another trier of the facts might well have arrived at a lower amount is not the test (Colby v. Drew,
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