Wilson v. Honeywell, Inc.

The defendant appeals from a judgment, entered after a jury trial, awarding the plaintiff damages for injuries received when a door at one of the defendant’s loading docks in Lawrence fell on the plaintiff. The primary planks in the defendant’s appeal are that its motion for judg ment notwithstanding the verdict should have been allowed as there was insufficient evidence of the defendant’s negligence and that it was error for the judge to instruct the jury on the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur. The defendant also argues: that the judge abused his discretion in permitting the testimony of a…