Campbell v. Portland Sugar Co.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions to the ruling of the justice of the superior court. There was also a motion for a new trial filed by the defendants, upon the ground that the verdict for the plaintilf was against law and the weight of evidence; also, because the damages, assessed by the jury, at $9,500, were excessive.
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On exceptions to the ruling of the justice of the superior court. There was also a motion for a new trial filed by the defendants, upon the ground that the verdict for the plaintilf was against law and the weight of evidence; also, because the damages, assessed by the jury, at $9,500, were excessive. The plaintifi’s injuries were of a very severe and painful nature, and at the first trial of the cause the verdict was for $8,166. The facts and the rulings at the trial are fully stated in the opinion. The court will find from the evidence that, the wharf where the accident happened was the…
1Opinion of the CourtBarrows, J.
The plaintiff was the driver of a job wagon, and was employed by the mate of a brig to take the mate’s-chest aboard the vessel, then lying at Brown’s wharf, loaded and nearly ready for sea. Going down to the wharf for this purpose soon after five o’clock, in the afternoon of November 7,1867, while it was still sufficiently light out doors to see, but duskish enough to require a light in the cabin, after going through a shed near the foot of the wharf, when near the gangway plank with the chest upon his shoulder, he stepped into a hole which had been long before that time worn through the…
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