COWART v. KENDALL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

Nos. 84-979, 84-1014 and 84-1082.

476 So.2d 289 (1985)

James B. COWART, Appellant, v. KENDALL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH and Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company, Appellees. KENDALL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH and Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company, Appellants, v. Todd COWART and James B. Cowart, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

October 8, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Podhurst, Orseck, Parks, Josefsberg, Eaton, Meadow & Olin and Joel Eaton, Miami, for appellant.

Vernis & Bowling and Richard H.W. Maloy, Miami, for appellees.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and NESBITT and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.


SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

Mrs. Todd Cowart was severely injured in a bicycle-automobile collision. She and her husband, James, who asserted a purely derivative claim, brought an action for damages which resulted in jury verdicts of $400,000 for Mrs. Cowart and zero for Mr. Cowart. Mr. Cowart then moved for a new trial as to his damages on the ground that the verdict in his case was inadequate and contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence. Although it was and is...

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