Sawyer v. Rumford Falls Paper Co.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Motion by Deeendant, Tins was an action brought to recover damages resulting from personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while employed in the defendant company’s paper mill a,t Rumford Falls. At the trial of the case the defendant’s counsel moved for a non-suit, and, the motion being denied, rested upon the evidence already presented.
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On Motion by Deeendant, Tins was an action brought to recover damages resulting from personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while employed in the defendant company’s paper mill a,t Rumford Falls. At the trial of the case the defendant’s counsel moved for a non-suit, and, the motion being denied, rested upon the evidence already presented. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $4250. The defendant company filed a general motion that the verdict be set aside as being against law and evidence, and for excessive damages. Proximate cause: 16 Am. & Eng. Enc. p. 439; 2…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitehouse, J.
The plaintiff obtained a verdict for $4250 as compensation for personal injuries sustained while employed in the paper mill of the defendant company at Rumford Falls. The case comes up on a motion to have this verdict set aside as against the evidence relating to the question of the defendant’s liability, and also because the damages are excessive.
The case was presented to the jury on the testimony of the plaintiff and his witnesses, no testimony being introduced by the defendant.
The accident occurred on the 7th day of December, 1894, while the plaintiff was engaged in the service of the…
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