[Download] "Mays v. Vejo" by South Carolina Supreme Court ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Mays v. Vejo
- Author : South Carolina Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 10, 2008
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 52 KB
Description
Plaintiff appeals a judgment entered following a trial in which the jury awarded her $3,103.30 in economic damages and $1.00 in noneconomic damages arising from a car accident. Plaintiff advances three assignments of error. First, she assigns error to the trial courts refusal to resubmit the verdict to the jury with a clarifying instruction regarding the award of noneconomic damages. Second, she assigns error to the trial courts denial of her motion for a new trial. In essence, her position as to both the first and second assignments is the same--that because $1.00 constitutes only nominal (no) damages, the jury failed to follow Uniform Civil Jury Instruction (UCJI) 70.04, given by the trial court without objection, thereby rendering the verdict invalid. Because we reverse on the basis of the first two assignments of error, we do not reach plaintiffs third assignment of error, regarding the admissibility of photographs of property damage.