Doherty v. Providence Journal Company

*393Powers, J.

This is an action of trespass on the case for negligence. It was tried to a superior court justice who reserved decision on the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict and submitted the case to a jury, which returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $5,000. The trial justice thereupon entered his decision denying the defendant’s motion and the case is before us on the defendant’s bill of exceptions, the sole exception being to the decision.

It is established by the record that at or about ten o’clock on the morning of 'September 18, 1958, plaintiff, who was a route…