Howe v. Central Vermont Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case for Negligence. Plea the general issue. Trial by jury at April Term, Windham County, Miles, J., presiding. At the close of all the evidence the defendant moved for a directed verdict, which motion was overruled, and defendant given an exception. General verdict for plaintiff. Both parties excepted. The opinion states the case.
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Case for Negligence. Plea the general issue. Trial by jury at April Term, Windham County, Miles, J., presiding. At the close of all the evidence the defendant moved for a directed verdict, which motion was overruled, and defendant given an exception. General verdict for plaintiff. Both parties excepted. The opinion states the case. The negligence alleged in the declaration was that the defendant did not give the warning required by P. S. 4431, by either ringing the engine bell or sounding the whistle at the highway crossing where the accident occurred, and that the defendant allowed trees,…
1Opinion of the CourtWatson, J.
In this action the plaintiff sues by her next friend, to recover for injuries received by her on September 10, 1915, at the defendant’s grade crossing known as “Parks Siding” in the town of Townshend, this State, by reason of the defendant’s locomotive colliding with the automobile in which she was riding. The automobile came upon the crossing from the east, going towards the west. The plaintiff was then two years and seven months of. age, and lived with her parents in the town of Newfane, about two miles from the home of her grandparents, Herbert G. Howe and his wife, Nora L. Howe, who lived…
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