Audette v. New England Transportation Co.

This action of trespass on the case for negligence involves a collision in the intersection of Cedar street and West avenue in the city of Pawtucket, at about 9:30 p. m. on March 29, 1943, between a hook-and-ladder truck of the Pawtucket fire department, hereinafter called a truck, which was returning from a fire, and a bus of the defendant company. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $3500: Defendant’s motion for a new trial was heard and granted. The case is before us on defendant’s exception to the denial of its motion for a directed verdict and also on plaintiff’s…