Batchelder v. Manchester Street Railway
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for negligence. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff. Transferred from the January term, 1903, of the superior ■court by Wallace, C. J. The evidence tended to prove the following facts: The defendants operated a line of street railway between the city of Manchester and Massabesic lake in the summer of 1900, and at the latter place maintained a pavilion and a theater. They transported large crowds of people to and from the pavilion.
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Case, for negligence. Trial by jury and verdict for the plaintiff. Transferred from the January term, 1903, of the superior ■court by Wallace, C. J. The evidence tended to prove the following facts: The defendants operated a line of street railway between the city of Manchester and Massabesic lake in the summer of 1900, and at the latter place maintained a pavilion and a theater. They transported large crowds of people to and from the pavilion. On the evening of August 28, the plaintiff, having attended the theater, was attempt-; ing to get' upon a car to return to the city, when she was…
1Opinion of the CourtChase, J.
The ruling of the court excluding the testimony offered by the plaintiff was the law of the trial, even if upon further examination it should be found that the testimony was competent (Bu llard v. Railroad, 64 N. H. 27; Felch v. Railroad, 66 N. H. 318, 320; Mitchell v. Railroad, 68 N. H. 96; Tyler v. Railroad, 68 N. H. 331; Shute v. Company, 69 N. H. 210), and did not fall within the class of testimony which the court may, in the exercise of their discretion, reject or receive according as they find that its bearing upon the main issues of the trial is or is not remote. The exception afforded…
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