Duplessis v. Guyon
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for negligence. Trial by jury and verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff was employed by the defendant in the construction of a cottage at Hampton Beach, and was injured by the collapse of a staging upon which he was working. Exceptions were taken by the plaintiff to the argument of defendant’s counsel, which sufficiently appear in the opinion. Transferred from the January term, 1921, of the superior court by Branch, J.
1Opinion of the CourtPlummer, J.
In argument the defendant’s counsel said: “I do not think that the busy man ought to have what little he has got taken away from him, the hard-earned dollars that he has made selling fish down there.” Exception by plaintiff. Then, argument continued: “The hard-earned dollars, I say, that he has made selling groceries, he and his good wife, in the little store down there, ought not to be taken away from him just because he has been a very busy man. (Exception.) You will agree to that, gentlemen, exception or no exception. I think you will say as fair-minded men called here from the body of…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Caverhill v. Boston & Maine RailroadSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1914
- Lemay v. DemersSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1915
- McDonnell v. MerrillSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1920
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