Carpenter v. United Electric Railways Co.

The plaintiffs in these two actions of trespass on the case for negligence, which were tried together to a jury in the superior court, are husband and wife. After verdicts for personal injuries to the wife and for consequential damages to the husband, the trial justice conditionally granted defendant’s motion for a new trial in the case of the former and denied it in that of the latter. The cases are here on defendant’s exceptions to such decisions, to rulings on evidence, and to the charge. Since the husband’s case is necessarily dependent on that of the wife, we shall hereinafter consider…