Ferguson v. Neilson

The plaintiff brings this action to recover damages for the negligence of the defendant’s servant in driving. The defendant, now a widow, pleads coverture at the time of the alleged negligence: to which the plaintiff replies that at said time the defendant was living separate and apart from her husband, who was then a resident of New York and never a domiciled inhabitant of Newport; that the defendant maintained herself separately in Newport, hiring her own servants and paying them from her own income, including the servant whose negligence is complained of ; and that such servant was under…