Aponaug Manufacturing Co. v. Collins

This is an appeal from a judgment for compensatory damages in a personal injury action against appellants.

There.are several assignments of error, including the complaint that the verdict of the jury in finding for the appellee (plaintiff in the trial court,) with reference to the liability of the defendant (appellant here,) for haling failed to use reasonable care in furnishing the plaintiff with a reasonably safe machine, ivas against the overwhelming weight of the evidence. At the conclusion of the plaintiff’s evidence, the defendant made a motion to exclude and direct a verdict for it,…