Baker v. Rhode Island Ice Company

This is an action of trespass on the case for negligence in which plaintiff was adjudged nonsuit in the superior court, on the motion of the defendant. The case is here on plaintiff’s exception to that ruling.

It appears from the evidence that plaintiff sustained personal injuries by reason of being struck by defendant’s truck which was operated, at the time of the accident, by Henry Svezek, an employee of defendant. The accident occurred at about eight o’clock in the evening of August 3, 1945, on or near a public highway in the village of Forestdale in the town, of North Smithfield. On the…