Adams v. John R. White & Son, Inc.

This is an action in assumpsit originally brought in the district court of the sixth judicial district to recover the amount due for rent or compensation for the use and occupation, by the defendant, of a certain wharf belonging to the plaintiff. A jury trial was claimed in the district court. At the trial in the Superior Court the defendant introduced no testimony and the- case was submitted to the jury upon the evidence offered by the plaintiff and the law as stated by the court. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for $160, that being the amount claimed by the plaintiff for a period…