Pigeon v. Lane
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the defendants’ negligence, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the jury before Georye W. Wheeler, J. ; pursuant to the direction of the trial court the jury returned a verdict for the defendants, and from the judgment thereon the plaintiff appealed.
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Action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the defendants’ negligence, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the jury before Georye W. Wheeler, J. ; pursuant to the direction of the trial court the jury returned a verdict for the defendants, and from the judgment thereon the plaintiff appealed. The substituted complaint contains these allegations : On or about the 14th day of January, 1905, the plaintiff, a minor of the age of fourteen years, was employed by the defendants, who were engaged in growing, preparing and marketing tobacco…
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
The action of the court in directing a verdict for the defendants must be held to have been erroneous, if it appears from tlie record that upon the evidence before them the jury might properly have found facts which would have sustained a verdict for the plaintiff.
"We have not the evidence before us, but only statements in the finding of certain uncontested facts, and of other controverted questions of fact. Among the latter are the questions of the alleged negligence of Rinski and of the contributory negligence of the plaintiff, both of which the court in its charge and direction to the jury…
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- Dickinson v. West End Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1901
- McNulty v. Pennsylvania RailroadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1897
- Zeigler v. Danbury & Norwalk RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1885
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