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- Title: Bates v. Frinder
- Author : Supreme Court of Connecticut
- Release Date : January 02, 1971
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 51 KB
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Henry Bates, Jr., hereinafter referred
to as the plaintiff, was a sixteen-year-old
high school student who was a passenger in an
automobile owned by the defendant Jean K. Frinder
and operated by her son, the defendant Donald
Frinder. The car was involved in an accident as a
result of which the plaintiff was severely
injured. By his mother, the plaintiff brought an
action against the defendants for damages for his
injuries. His mother, individually, joined as a
plaintiff to recover as damages the medical expenses
which she had incurred on behalf of her son. The case
was tried to a jury which returned a verdict for
$16,000 in favor of the plaintiff and for $10,138.80
in favor of his mother. Both of them moved to set aside
the verdict on the ground that it was inadequate. The
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plaintiff's mother subsequently withdrew the
motion which she had filed in her individual
capacity but at the same time joined with the
plaintiff in a motion for an additur by the court
to the amount of damages awarded to her son. The
court denied both motions and the present appeal
ensued, the sole assignments of error being that
the court was in error in failing to grant the
motion to set aside the verdict in favor of the
plaintiff and in refusing to order an additur to
that verdict.