Young v. Carignan

In this action the plaintiff seeks to recover ’for breach of an oral contract with the defendant wherein the latter promised to make a certain investment in behalf of his son. The case is before us, after verdict for the plaintiff, on motion for a new trial and on exceptions.

In our view the verdict must be set aside for error in a ruling reaching the decisive question of the terms of the contract. The ruling was made in the course of the argument of defendant’s counsel to the jury.

On the point in issue the jury found in substance the following :

In May 1951 the plaintiff and the defendant’s…