Snow v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad

These are two actions of tort which were tried together. The first is for injuries received by the female plaintiff in a collision on the defendant’s railroad on December 16, 1899, while a passenger, and the second is by the husband for *322expenses and loss of consortium. The liability was admitted and the only question in each case was the amount of the damages. The verdicts were unsatisfactory to the plaintiffs, and the cases are here on their exceptions to certain rulings and instructions and to the admission of certain testimony.

There was testimony tending to show that as the result of the…