Searles v. Ross

There are involved here two suits, one by Warren Searles, a minor, who seeks to recover damages for personal injuries occasioned, as he says, by the negligence of the defendants, the other by his father who claims reimbursement for medical expenses and damages for the loss of services of his son. After a ver-*79diet for the plaintiff in each case the defendants filed general motions for new trials which are now before this Court.

At the time of the accident Warren Searles was nine years old. The members of his family, who were living in the Town of Temple, fell into financial distress, and the…