Fury v. Stone

Decided January 1, 1792

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1792

THE plaintiff laid his damages at £500 ; but the verdict and judgment nisi were for £672 13 2. The defendant hereupon took out a writ of error, and next day the plaintiff moved for leave to enter a remittitur of the surplus damages, upon the authority of H. Blacks. Rep. 643. 1 Dall. Rep. 134. Todd opposed it.

Cited by 2 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1888

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Decided 1792

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¶1THE plaintiff laid his damages at £500 ; but the verdict and judgment nisi were for £672 13 2. The defendant hereupon took out a writ of error, and next day the plaintiff moved for leave to enter a remittitur of the surplus damages, upon the authority of H. Blacks. Rep. 643. 1 Dall. Rep. 134. Todd opposed it.

¶2But;

¶3by the Court:

¶4—There is no difference between this case and that in Blackstone’s Reports. We shall always be disposed to favor amendments. Let the remittitur be entered, upon payment of the costs of the writ of error.