Passarelli v. Boragini

This action of trespass on the case for deceit is here solely on defendant's exception to the trial justice's denial of his motion for a new trial after a jury in the superior court had returned a verdict for the plaintiff for $3246, the full amount he claimed to have lost by reason of his reliance upon a series of false representations by the defendant. On that exception the only question for our determination is whether the ruling on the motion was clearly wrong.

[1] The motion for a new trial was predicated on the usual grounds that the verdict was against the law and the evidence and also…