Fontaine v. Jones

This case arises upon appeal by the plaintiffs from a judgment for the defense entered after a directed jury verdict for the defendants. The plaintiffs pro*385test that the presiding justice erred in imposing the verdict. There was other error assigned by the plaintiffs which they have abandoned by their election not to prosecute it in their briefs.

On January 10, A. D. 1958, a school day, Evelyn L. Jones drove her husband’s car northerly from her residence on the easterly side of a one way street and in the direction authorized. The car inferentially struck and severely injured Bruce Fontaine, a…