Cuyahoga Baking Co. v. Rees
Cuyahoga Baking Co. v. Rees
Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF COURT.
The following is taken, verbatim, from the-opinion.
The court charged the jury that, in arriving at the amount of damages, they should take into account how long the child would probably have lived and the amount that her father and mother and brothers and sisters, would probably have received from her during her liftetime if she had not met with the accident, and it is claimed that this was error,, because the jury should have been confined to the consideration of her pecuniary value to said beneficiaries during the child’s minority. We find that there was no error in the court’s charge in -this respect.
It is also claimed that the verdict is excessive and was given under the influence of passion and prejudice.
There is nothing in the record that raises the slightest inference of bias or prejudice on the part of the jury, and we are unanimous in that conclusion; therefore the judgment cannot be reversed on the ground that the verdict is excessive and was given under the influence of passion and prejudice.
This leaves for consideration the question of whether or not the judgment as to the amount of damages is manifestly against the weight of evidence.
In construing the constitution of Ohio, it is now firmly established, by the decisions of the Supreme Court, that the Court of Appeals cannot reverse a judgment on this ground unless all of the judges of this court concur in the finding that the judgment as to amount of damages is manifestly against the weight of the evidence. We have given to that question in this case very patient and careful consideration, and are unable to unanimously agree that the judgment, in amount, is manifestly against the weight of the evidence.
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