Hunt v. Rhodes Bros.

These two actions of tort were tried together * and a verdict was rendered for each plaintiff. The cases are here on the defendant’s exceptions. We shall speak of the female plaintiff as the plaintiff. She was injured by a barbed tack embedded in a leg of Iamb which she was preparing for cooking, and which her husband was alleged to have purchased from the defendant as her agent. It is admitted that the plaintiff was in the exercise of due care and that there was evidence of negligence on the part of the defendant’s servant. The exceptions state that the only question is whether there was…