Williams v. Sweet
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. This is an action on an alleged contract to recover for board of defendant, his wife, her mother and sister at plaintiff’s summer hotel called Colonial Inn, situated at Ogunquit, for two weeks at eighty dollars per week. The action was tried in the Supreme Judicial Court for York County, and at the close of the evidence on motion by defendant the presiding Justice directed a verdict in his favor, and plaintiff excepted.
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On exceptions. This is an action on an alleged contract to recover for board of defendant, his wife, her mother and sister at plaintiff’s summer hotel called Colonial Inn, situated at Ogunquit, for two weeks at eighty dollars per week. The action was tried in the Supreme Judicial Court for York County, and at the close of the evidence on motion by defendant the presiding Justice directed a verdict in his favor, and plaintiff excepted. Plaintiff also took exceptions to a ruling on the admissibility of testimony. The case is stated sufficiently in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtDunn, J.
A considerable page could quite easily be filled with detail of this case, but the narration would contribute to no especially useful purpose. On a former reviewal a verdict for the plaintiff was set aside and a new trial granted. 119 Maine, 228. Another trial has been had. This time the verdict is for the defendant, by direction of the presiding Judge. The plaintiff has vainly striven, in arguing an exception that he reserved, to attribute the unhappy outcome of his case in the court below to the final ruling which was there made. Exceptions to a directed verdict necessarily bring up the…
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