Felker v. Bangor Railway & Electric Co.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On motion by defendant for new trial. Motion overruled. This is an action on the ease to recover damages for personal injuries sustained in .a collision between the carriage in which the plaintiff was riding and the electric car of the defendant. The defendant plead the general issue. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff of $1200. The defendant filed a general motion for a new trial. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtSavage, C. J.
Case to recover for injuries sustained in a collision between the carriage in which the plaintiff was riding and the electric car of the defendant company. The plaintiff obtained a verdict for twelve hundred dollars. The case comes up on the defendant’s motion for a new trial on the usual grounds. But counsel have argued only the question of damages, and to that question we shall confine ourselves.
The plaintiff is a married woman, and at the time of the accident was about 71 years of age, and in ordinarily good health for a woman of her age. The carriage in which she was riding was overturned…
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