Larrabee v. Sewall
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
ÜN EXCEPTIONS AND MOTION. Trespass for collision on the highway, in substance, that on March 14, 1875, the plaintiff, wife, was carefully driving on the right side of Washington street, Bath, and the defendant, approaching to meet her, so carelessly drove as to induce a collision of carriages, by which she was thrown out; that the main trunk of the right sciatic nerve w'as thereby injured, resulting in great pain and introversion of her foot and permanent lameness.
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ÜN EXCEPTIONS AND MOTION. Trespass for collision on the highway, in substance, that on March 14, 1875, the plaintiff, wife, was carefully driving on the right side of Washington street, Bath, and the defendant, approaching to meet her, so carelessly drove as to induce a collision of carriages, by which she was thrown out; that the main trunk of the right sciatic nerve w'as thereby injured, resulting in great pain and introversion of her foot and permanent lameness. The plea was not guilty, with brief statement that since the commencement of the action, and pending the same, August 1, 1875,…
1Opinion of the CourtDickerson, J.
Exceptions are taken by the defendant to the refusal of the court to give certain requested instructions, the-want of fulness in giving others, and the rulings upon the admis*380sion and exclusion, of testimony. "We shall consider only the exceptions relied upon in the argument, regarding the others as waived.
Great importance is attached in the argument to the alleged refusal of the court to give the fourteenth requested instruction which was as follows: “that even if the defendant was on the wrong side of the street, and the plaintiff saw his carriage in season to avoid the collision, and had an…
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