STEPHEN HUNTER KRETZMER AND PERSHING AUTO LEASING, INC., A FLORIDA CORPORATION, APPELLANTS,
v.
ROSALIND RUSSEL, BY AND THROUGH HER MOTHER AND NEXT FRIEND, MARLENE MAJOR AND MURLENE MAJOR, INDIVIDUALLY, APPELLEES
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The court held that the jury instructions were adequate and the verdicts were not excessive given the evidence.
Plaintiffs, a minor and her mother, sued for personal injuries and received a jury verdict. The defendants appealed, arguing the court should have giv…
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The defendants appeal a final judgment based on a jury verdict in favor of the minor plaintiff in the sum of $18,000 and the sum of $2,000 for her mother, the other plaintiff, in a personal injury action.
The appellants base their appeal upon the refusal of the court to grant certain instructions and upon the court’s denying their motion for a new trial based upon the alleged excessiveness of the verdicts due to the jury being prejudiced against the defendant Kretzmer and that such prejudice was reflected in the amounts of the two verdicts.
We have read the complete instructions given by the lower court and find that the instructions so given were fair without any necessity for the additional instructions requested by the defendants.
Two physicians testified in this case, one favorable to the plaintiffs and the other favorable to the defendants. Also testifying was the minor plaintiff and her mother.
The lower court found that the verdict was not excessive under the evidence adduced if believed by the jury.
*427We find no error in this record so affirm the lower court.
Affirmed.
ALLEN, Acting C. J., and SHANNON, J., and TROWBRIDGE, C. PFEIFFER, Associate Judge, concur.