# Southern Pac. Co. v. Guthrie

> Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · April 9, 1951 · 186 F.2d 926

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9442721

## Case

- **Full name:** Southern Pac. Co. v. Guthrie
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- **Decided:** April 9, 1951
- **Citations:** 186 F.2d 926
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Bone
- **Judges:** Pope, Bone, Denman, Stephens
- **Cited by:** 68 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

BONE, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
I agree that the judgment in this case should be affirmed but I think that we should also specifically overrule our Le-pisto case. The doctrine of that old case lacks support in pronouncements of the Supreme Court and only one Circuit seems to have relied on it as authority for the principle that a federal appellate court may arbitrarily reduce the size of a verdict merely because it regards it as excessive.

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