Dent v. Bellows Falls & Saxtons River Street Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Vermont
Action op Tort for negligence. Plea, tbe general issue. Trial by jury at the September Term, 1920, Windham County, Moulton, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, J.
Plaintiff’s intestate, Fred M. Fairbanks, late of .Springfield, Vermont, was killed in the nighttime of August 1, 1918, by being run over by an electric car on a bridge situated on the defendant’s road between Bellows Falls and Saxtons River. This action is brought to recover damages for the benefit *526of the next of kin. The trial was by jury, with verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant saved various exceptions, on which the case is brought here for review.
At the close of the evidence the defendant moved for a directed verdict on the grounds: (1) That the undisputed and…
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