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Show EXCESSIVE VERDICT REDUCED BY COURT Upon his own motion Judge Ritchie today reduced the verdict for $22,500, awarded to Charles Brown by a Jury, to $6000. At the time the verdict was returned Judge Ritchie intimated that he would reduce the verdict. After the attorneys for the plaintiff have decided whether or not they will accept the reduced verdict, ver-dict, the defendant will be given ten days within which to enter a motion for a new trial. Brown was an engineer for the Union Pacific Railroad company, the defendant. defend-ant. He was injured in a collision in Wyoming. |