O'Connor v. Narragansett Electric Co.

This is an action of trespass on the case for negligence. After a hearing before a justice of the Superior Court decision was rendered for the plaintiff for the sum of $2,000. The case is before this court on defendant’s exceptions to said decision on the grounds that it is against the weight of the evidence and that the damages are excessive.

The plaintiff, a woman about 66 years of age, resided in the second-floor tenement of premises owned by her in Providence. She let another tenement in the building. On February 8, 1932, at about 4 o’clock p. m. she went down into the cellar room at the…