Order affirmed, with $50 costs and disbursements.
Plaintiff, who was 23 years old at the time of the automobile accident, sustained a permanent facial disfigurement, consisting of a bulge in the center of a six-inch scar on the forehead. His special damages were approximately $2,800. In our view the jury verdict of $5,000 was so grossly inadequate as to enable the Trial Judge, who viewed and evaluated the afore-mentioned scar, to conclude that such verdict shocked...
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