United States Eighth Circuit

In an action for damages from an airplane accident, sufficient evidence supported jury's award for loss of earning capacity, and denial of a motion for new trial or remittitur was not an abuse of discretion in because awards are supported by the evidence, though at the outer limits of that warranted by the evidence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/09/2003
• Published 01/09/2003

Judges

• WOLLMAN, Chief Judge., Before WOLLMAN, Chief Judge, RICHARD S. ARNOLD, and HANSEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alan D. Reitzfeld, argued, Randal R. Craft, Jr., Holland & Knight LLP, New York City (Michael E. Hale and D. Keith Fortner,Barber, McCaskill, Jones & Hale, P.A., Little Rock, AR, on the brief), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ted Boswell, argued, Bryant, AR (Jim Jackson, Bryant, AR, Michael Slack, Austin, TX, on the brief), for appellee.