Morrison v. Bitting

This is an action of assumpsit in which, after a trial in the superior court, a jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for $5404.98. The defendant’s motion for a new trial was denied by the trial justice and the defendant then prosecuted his bill of exceptions to this court.

The defendant is now relying on fifteen exceptions, having waived the others taken by him. The exceptions now urged relate to certain rulings made by the trial justice during the trial, to his refusal to charge the jury as requested by the defendant and to the denial of the latter’s motion for a new trial.

This case was…