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- Title: Marin v. Silva
- Author : Supreme Court of Connecticut
- Release Date : January 02, 1968
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 50 KB
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This action was brought by the operator
of a motorcycle and his passenger against
both the owner and the operator of an automobile
which collided with the motorcycle. The named
plaintiff was injured when she was thrown from the
motorcycle on which she was the passenger. A jury
awarded her $3000 in damages, and the plaintiffs
moved, under 52-228b of the General Statutes, to
set aside the verdict on the ground that it was
inadequate. The court set the verdict aside and
ordered a new trial, limited to the question of
damages, unless the parties accepted an addition
to the verdict for the named plaintiff in the
amount of $2700. The defendants have appealed.
No issue is raised over the verdict in the
defendants' favor against the plaintiff operator
of the motorcycle. The defendants' claims are, in substance, that
the court should not have set the verdict aside as
inadequate, that the court invaded the defendants'
right to a jury trial by ordering the acceptance
of an additional amount as an alternative to a new [156 Conn. 323]