TEMENTO v. VERDOODT

No. 6418.

303 So.2d 207 (1974)

Maude Temento, wife of/and Sterling TEMENTO v. Alvin I. VERDOODT, Jr. and Manchester Insurance and Indemnity Company.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

November 7, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter J. Vernaci, New Orleans, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Lawrence J. Fritz, Lambert, Nowalsky & Lambert, New Orleans, for defendants-appellants.

Before REDMANN, BOUTALL and SCHOTT, JJ.


REDMANN, Judge.

By this appeal defendants seek reduction of a $2,700 general damage award as excessive and elimination of a $600 loss of earnings award as unproven.

Plaintiff wife's complaints from a rearend collision were of neck and lower back pains. Her family physician found muscular spasm in the cervical area and, from x-rays, pre-existing degenerative disc pathology. A consulting orthopedist found no spasm eleven days after the accident; but he diagnosed...

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