Newell v. Whitcher
Supreme Court of Vermont
This case was tried at the December Term, 1878, Ross, J., presiding. Trial by jury ; verdict for the plaintiff to recover $225, including $100 for exemplary damages. All the questions are substantially stated in the opinion of the court, ¡except the charge to the jury.
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This case was tried at the December Term, 1878, Ross, J., presiding. Trial by jury ; verdict for the plaintiff to recover $225, including $100 for exemplary damages. All the questions are substantially stated in the opinion of the court, ¡except the charge to the jury. Charge : “ That if they found that the dedefendant entered the plaintiff’s room and did and said what the plaintiff said he did, and thereby frightened her, and that her health was thereby affected and she was unable to perform her customary duties and labors, she could recover, and it was immaterial o,n which count of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Redfield, J.
The plaintiff, an unfortunate girl, blind from her birth, gave lessons in music one day in each week to defendant’s daughters, and lodged there over night. A certain room in defendant’s house was assigned to plaintiff by defendant and his wife, as a private lodging room. On the occasion in question, she *591was awakened about the middle of the night, in the dark, by the rustle and footsteps of some person in her room ; presently the defendant sat down upon her bed and bed-clothes in which she was wrapped, leaned over her person, and made…
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