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  "name": "Cochran v. Long",
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        "text": "RobiNS, J.\nThis appeal is from a judgment for $500, based on verdict of trial jury, in favor of appellee in her suit against appellant for bodily injuries and for damage to her sedan which occurred when her automobile collided with a truck owned and driven by appellant.\nOnly these two grounds are urged by appellant for reversal:\n\u2022I. That appellant was prejudiced by improper remarks of counsel for appellee in his opening statement.\nII. That the lower court erred in permitting testimony as to cost of repairs to appellee\u2019s sedan and as to cost of repairs to appellant\u2019s truck necessitated by the collision.\nI.\nIn her complaint-appellee asserted that she was compelled to expend $234.39 in order to repair her automobile, and that for damage to her car and for her bodily injuries she was entitled to recover $1,234.39 from appellant.\nAppellant filed an answer denying all the material allegations of the complaint. Five months later, on the day of trial, appellant filed a counterclaim in which he alleged that through the negligence of appel-lee, which, he averred, solely caused the collision, his truck was damaged in the sum of $503.15, for which he prayed judgment against appellee.\nDuring his opening statement to the jury counsel for appellee attempted to tell the jury that as soon as he discovered that appellant was claiming that he had expended $503.15 to repair damage to his truck caused by the collision, he (counsel for appellee) caused to be issued and put in the hands of the sheriff a subpoena for the person who made the original bill at the garage where it was said the repairs to appellant\u2019s truck were made, requiring him to bring his records into court, but that when the sheriff served the subpoena he found him destroying his records. Appellee\u2019s attorney was not allowed by the court to complete his statement, but appellant insists that what appellee\u2019s counsel did say created such an atmosphere of prejudice toward appellant that a mistrial should have been ordered.\nThe state policeman who investigated testified that appellant told him a few minutes after the collision that his (appellant\u2019s) truck was not damaged in the collision.\nAppellant in Ms belated counterclaim and in Ms testimony made tbe repair bill from tbe garage tbe basis of Ms claim. He testified that be bad lost tbe original paid bill, but be bad what be said was a copy thereof, showing different items of repairs aggregating $503.15, which snm be claimed as damage. This contention on tbe \u2022 part of appellant, made not only in bis testimony bnt in Ms pleading, certainly gaye appellee tbe right to have tbe original records brought into court; and it justified appellee\u2019s counsel in esplaining to tbe jury why these records could not be brought into court.\nThere was nothing improper in tbe opening statement made by appellee\u2019s counsel as' to these records and tbe reason for their not being produced. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company v. Bearden, 107 Ark. 363, 155 S. W. 499.\nII.\nAppellee testified that she bad paid $2,500 for her automobile, which was a new Nash sedan, that she paid $234.39 to repair tbe damage done in tbe collision and then sold it for $1,500.\nWe have often held in cases involving damage to automobiles that cost of making repairs rendered necessary by tbe tortious act complained of is a proper factor to be considered in arriving at tbe amount of damage recoverable; and in tbe recent cp.se of Southern Bus Company v. Simpson, ante p. 323, 215 S. W. 2d 699, we quoted with approval this excerpt from our opinion in tbe case of Golenternek v. Kurth, 213 Ark. 643, 212 S. W. 2d 14: \u201c \u2018In tbe absence of other competent proof of market value, we have held that tbe difference in market value before and after tbe collision may be established by a showing of tbe amount paid in good faith for tbe repairs necessitated by tbe collision. (Citing cases.)\u2019 \u201d\nTbe lower court did not err in permitting testimony relative to amount paid out by appellee in having her automobile repaired immediately after tbe collision or in allowing appellant to be questioned as to cost of bis repairs.\nNo error appearing, the judgment of the lower court is affirmed.",
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        "author": "RobiNS, J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "J. M. Smalliuood, for appellant.",
      "Robt. J. White, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Cochran v. Long.\n4-8754\n217 S. W. 2d 612\nOpinion delivered February 21, 1949.\nJ. M. Smalliuood, for appellant.\nRobt. J. White, for appellee."
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