Donoghue v. Smith

The plaintiff suffered injuries resulting from a collision-between an automobile in which she was riding and one owned by the defendant Smith and operated by the defendant Farrington. The verdict of the jury awarded her damages in the sum of $9000 and the defendants appeal from the denial of their motion to set the verdict aside as contrary to the evidence and excessive, and also assign error in the rulings on evidence and the charge of the court.

The rulings complained of were, with one exception, those which overruled the defendants’ objection to testimony offered by the plaintiff. The…