DESKIN

v.

PAZAN, DOING BUSINESS AS PAZAN MOTOR FREIGHT, ET AL.

Citator

Cited By (12 total)

• Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Holland v. Gertrude Owen Tuller, 292 F.2d 775 (D.C. Cir. 1961)
  …four and eight respectively. The award of $350,000 is attacked as so excessive that it should have been set aside by the District Court. We pointed out in Hulett v. Brinson, 1955, 97 U.S.App.D.C. 139, 142, 229 F. 2d 22, 25, certiorari denied 1956, 350 U.S. 1014, 76 S.Ct. 659, 100 L.Ed. 874, “that the rule in the Federal courts is that an appellate court may reverse, if at all, for excessiveness of verdict only where the verdict is so grossly excessive or monstrous as to demonstrate clearly that the trial c…
• Phoenix Indem. Co. & Joseph Jurisich Marine Serv., Inc. v. Givens, 263 F.2d 858 (5th Cir. 1959)
  …has proved that “the verdict is so grossly excessive or monstrous as to demonstrate clearly that the trial court has abused his discretion in permitting it to stand”. Hu-lett v. Brinson, 1955, 97 U.S.App.D.C. 139, 229 F. 2d 22, 25, certiorari denied 350 U.S. 1014, 76 S.Ct. 659, 100 L.Ed. 874. See also Reid v. Nelson, 5 Cir., 1946, 154 F. 2d 724. In Gillen v. Phoenix Indemnity Co., 5 Cir., 1952, 198 F. 2d 147, 150, this Court expressed the opinion that “an instruction (that the jury look to awards by state co…
• Muldrow v. Daly, 329 F.2d 886 (D.C. Cir. 1964)
  …C. -, 331 F. 2d 777 (1963). . And see Dimick v. Schiedt, 293 U.S. 474, 486, 487, 55 S.Ct. 296, 79 L.Ed. 603 (1935). . We applied the principle of the Neese case in Hulett v. Brinson, 97 U.S.App.D.C. 139, 143, 229 F. 2d 22, 26 (1955), cert. denied, 350 U.S. 1014, 76 S.Ct. 659, 100 L.Ed. 874 (1956). See generally, James, Remedies for Excessiveness or Inadequacy of Verdicts, 1 Duquesne L.Rev. 143 (1963). . Allen v. United States, 164 U.S. 492, 17 S.Ct. 154, 41 L.Ed. 528 (1896); Lias v. United States, 51 F. 2…