Boettger v. Mauran

This is an action of trespass on the case for negligence in which, after a trial in the superior court, a jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for $4500. The case is now before us on a bill of exceptions duly prosecuted by the defendant after the trial justice had denied her motion for a new trial.

The principal facts of the case are not in serious dispute. In general it appeared from the evidence that, after some negotiations, the plaintiff, an experienced gardener and greenhouse man, started to work for the defendant, on April 13,1937, on the latter’s farm in Cranston, in this state. At…