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- Title: Spencer v. Matthews
- Author : Court Of Appeals Of Kentucky
- Release Date : January 28, 1952
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 48 KB
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CULLEN, Commissioner. James Spencer, standing in the front yard of a farmhouse in which he lived as a tenant farmer in the employ of J. Carl Matthews, was injured when Matthews, whose automobile had been parked along the highway, backed it into the yard for the purpose of turning around. The accident caused a separation of an old fracture of Spencer's left leg. In an action against Matthews, the jury returned a verdict for Spencer in the amount of $1,500. Appealing from the judgment entered on the verdict, Spencer claims inadequacy of the award of damages. In addition to claiming inadequacy per se, he contends that by misconduct of the defendant's attorney, by failure of the court to give a peremptory instruction on the question of liability, and by an erroneous instruction emphasizing plaintiff's previous injury, the jury was wrongfully influenced to minimize the damages.