Arramone
Arramone v. Prowse
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Healy, J.
Appellant, at age seventeen, suffered injuries in a collision between an automobile in which she was a passenger and a truck owned and operated by appellee’s intestate, Prowse. Her injuries consisted mainly of facial lacerations of an apparently extensive nature, plus the loss of four teeth; and it is around these injuries that the bulk of the argument here has. revolved. 1 Through her parents as guardians ad litem appellant brought suit, and the jury empaneled in the case awarded general damages in her favor in *455 the sum of $6,000. The jury returned also a verdict in the amount of $4,000 in favor of the parents for present and prospective expenses of hospitalization, surgical and dental care, and other expenses incurred or to be incurred in the treatment of the daughter.
No complaint is made by the parents with respect to the adequacy of the award to them of past and prospective costs of treatment. We understand that they consider the verdict in this respect to be adequate. But on behalf of the daughter the parents moved for a new trial, grounding the motion on the contentions that the general damages awarded her are inadequate and that the verdict in this respect is…