DAMAGES, § 370 — nonexcessiveness of award for permanent personal injuries. $50,000, while high, was not excessive for injuries sustained by plaintiff, a 51-year-old man with good health prior to accident and then earning over $4,000 per year as a toolmaker, where plaintiff had sustained a loss of $10,000 in earnings at time of judgment, and there was medical testimony that plaintiff's injuries were permanent, that he would not be able to return to any gainful occupation, and that he had suffered severe brain injury in addition to a basal skull fracture.
See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.
Opinion by JUSTICE TUOHY.
Not to be published in full. Opinion filed June 20, 1949; released for publication July 18, 1949.