Anderson v. Johnson

This action of assumpsit was tried before a justice of the superior court, sitting with a jury, and resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $2000. It is before this court solely upon the plaintiff’s exception to the action of the trial justice in granting the defendant’s motion for a new trial.

The plaintiff, a man seventy-nine years old, who testified through an interpreter, brought this action against Hilda Johnson, widow of Arthur Anderson, who was the plain-' tiff’s deceased son, and against George Johnson, her second husband. At the conclusion of the plaintiff’s case, a…