Lange v. Goulet

Defendant’s motion for a new trial in this cause challenges a jury verdict for $1,500, returned in favor of a 73-year-old plaintiff, slightly lame and somewhat hard *17of hearing, injured while walking on a cross-walk at an intersection of ways in broad daylight, when struck and knocked down, as he alleges, by a motor vehicle operated by the defendant. A light fall of snow was not sufficient to obscure vision.

The allegation of the motion that the damages are excessive has been waived. The sole issues are whether, on the record, the findings of the jury that the defendant was negligent and that…