Ullman

Defendant Lane appeals from a judgment rendered against him in favor of plaintiff in an action for personal injuries.

The sole question presented by appellant is whether the amount of damages awarded to plaintiff is excessive; and the reason urged by appellant for a reversal of the judgment is that the decision of the court and the judgment based thereon are not sustained by the evidence.

As stated in the findings of fact made by the trial court, “ . . . plaintiff received a deep, jagged laceration about one inch in length in his forehead over his right eye, contusion of the right lower chest and forearm, and abrasions of the right ankle, from all of which plaintiff became sick, sore and disabled and suffered a permanent scar on his right forehead, to his damage in the sum of twenty-five hundred (2500) dollars”.

An examination of the record herein discloses the details from which the trial court was justified in finding that as a result of the injuries particularly mentioned in said finding “plaintiff became sick, sore and disabled ...” Included within such record is evidence to the effect that prior to the accident which resulted in the injuries to plaintiff his general…