Bigelow v. Reed
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Exceptions to the ruling of Walton, J., and on motion to set aside the verdict as being against the evidence. No question of law arose on the motion. This was an action of the case for injury alleged to have been received by the plaintiff by the defendant’s horse and sleigh running against him on the highway, in consequence of the negligence of the defendant, or his servants.
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On Exceptions to the ruling of Walton, J., and on motion to set aside the verdict as being against the evidence. No question of law arose on the motion. This was an action of the case for injury alleged to have been received by the plaintiff by the defendant’s horse and sleigh running against him on the highway, in consequence of the negligence of the defendant, or his servants. The plaintiff’s testimony tended to prove that he was sitting in his pung in the travelled part of the street in Augiista, waiting for two acquaintances to change horses ; that the defendant sent his son with his…
1Opinion of the Court
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Kent,-J.
The case, most strongly stated for the defendant, so far as the rulings and refusals of the Judge presiding in relation to the fourth and fifth requests, are in question, is this The defendant’s son and servant was sent by him to a store in Augusta, to get a bill for ton dollars changed by the occupant. He went with a horse and sleigh, and, on arriving near the door of the store, ho alighted from the sleigh, and requested one Crommett, who was standing near, to hold his horse whilst he got the bill changed; Crommett took hold of the rein by the…
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