HATTON

v.

SMITH, WARDEN

Citator

Cited By (49 total)

• Jackson v. Seaboard Coast Line R.R. Co., 678 F.2d 992 (11th Cir. 1982)
  …the only relief a party may obtain in this court is the ordering of a new trial; we may not direct the district court to enter judgment for the appellant. See Gorsalitz v. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp., 429 F. 2d 1033 (5th Cir. 1970), cert. denied, 407 U.S. 921, 92 S.Ct. 2463, 32 L.Ed.2d 807 (1972); Yorkshire Indemnity Co. of N. Y. v. Roosth & Genecov Production Co., 252 F. 2d 650, 657-58 (5th Cir. 1958). [*1022] In turning to the merits of appellees’ claim, we first observe that a district court should di…
• Edwards v. Sears, 512 F.2d 276 (5th Cir. 1975)
  …produced an excessive damages award, the court agreed a remittitur, and not a new trial, was the proper response. An analogous case is Gorsalitz v. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp., 5 Cir., 1970, 429 F. 2d 1033, modified, 456 F. 2d 180, cert. denied, 407 U.S. 921, 92 S.Ct. 2463, 32 L.Ed.2d 807 (1972). In Gorsalitz, the plaintiff had been extensively injured after .contact with a high voltage transformer; “the severe disfigurement of his face was . . . constantly before the jury as mute evidence of the terrib…
• Dixon v. Int'l Harvester Co., 754 F.2d 573 (5th Cir. 1985)
  …consortium prior to her husband’s death. We must be careful, however, not simply to substitute our view of a reasonable amount for the verdict of a jury. Gorsalitz v. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp., 429 F. 2d 1033, 1047 (5th Cir.1970), cert. denied, 407 U.S. 921, 92 S.Ct. 2463, 32 L.Ed.2d 807 (1972). We therefore add fifty percent to these amounts to arrive at a figure that appears to us to be the maximum a jury could award for these elements of damage. See Caldarera, 705 F. 2d at 785. We add to this amou…