Michon v. Williams

This is an action of trespass on the case resulting from the defendant’s alleged negligent operation of a motor vehicle on a highway in the city of Providence. The case was tried -to a superior court justice, sitting with a jury, and resulted in a verdict of $2,000. It is before us on the plaintiff’s bill of exceptions to certain evidentiary rulings, to the refusal of the trial justice to permit testimony of a witness in rebuttal, and to the denial of his motion for a new trial on the question of damages only or in lieu thereof an additur.

On October 25, 1963, after the case had been assigned…