Jackiewicz v. United Illuminating Co.

The denial of the motion to set aside the verdict was right. There is, upon the evidence, no reasonable basis for the conclusion that the plaintiff, a child of three and one half years, contributed materially to the injuries he suffered, and the negligence of the defendant was a question of fact which the jury might reasonably have resolved against the defendant.

Errors in the instruction to the jury are pursued in brief and argument in several particulars, which we will now take up, giving, first, a brief statement of the facts in' issue sufficient to make understandable the conflicting…