{"id":10840,"date":"2017-12-15T08:14:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T08:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=10840"},"modified":"2017-12-15T08:14:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T08:14:58","slug":"inadequate-damages-damages-insufficient-to-fully-and-fairly-compensate-the-parties-damages-bearing-no-reasonable-relation-to-the-plaintiff-s-injuries-indicating-prejudice-mistake-etc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=10840","title":{"rendered":"Inadequate Damages – damages insufficient to fully and fairly compensate the parties; damages bearing no reasonable relation to the plaintiff\u2019 s injuries, indicating prejudice, mistake, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"

inadequate damages<\/span>:<\/span>
\n<\/strong>(18c)<\/span><\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> Damages insufficient to fully and fairly compensate the parties; damages bearing no reasonable relation to the plaintiff\u2019 s injuries, indicating prejudice, mistake, or other fact to support setting aside a jury\u2019s verdict. <\/strong>[1]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. An award so small as to indicate passion, prejudice, partiality, or corruption on the part of the jury, or to make it appear that the jury disregarded the instructions of the court or labored under a vital mistake or misapprehension of the principles by which they should have been governed in making the award.\u00a0 22 Am J2d Damg \u00a7 398<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

An award in an amount so small as to bear no reasonable relation to the loss suffered by the plaintiff or to indicate an evident failure of justice.\u00a0 22 Am J2d Damg \u00a7 398.<\/span> <\/strong>[2]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. An award so small that is bears no reasonable relation to the loss suffered by the plaintiff.<\/strong> [3]<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]: Black\u2019s Law <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Dictionary\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/strong>Deluxe<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Tenth<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Edition<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>by<\/b><\/span><\/strong> Henry Campbell Black, Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-61300-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[2]: Ballantine\u2019s Law <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Dictionary\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/strong>with<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Pronunciations<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em>
\n<\/span><\/a><\/em>Third Edition<\/a>\u00a0by James A. Ballantine\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Edited by William S. Anderson.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a9 1969 by THE LAWYER\u2019S CO-OPERATIVE PUBLISHING COMPANY.\u00a0 Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 68-30931<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[3]: Ballantine\u2019s Law <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Dictionary\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/strong>Legal<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Assistant<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Edition<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>by<\/b><\/span><\/strong> Jack Ballantine\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Doctored<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>by\u00a0Jack G. Handler,\u00a0J.D.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a9 1994 Delmar by Thomson Learning.\u00a0 ISBN 0-8273-4874-6.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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