Worthington v. Shewcov

These are two actions of trespass for assault and battery on the person of the plaintiff’s intestate. Prior to the trial the plaintiff moved that she be substituted as party plaintiff in her capacity as administratrix of the estate of her late husband Park N. Worthington. The cases were tried together before a justice of the superior court sitting with a jury and resulted in a verdict for the defendant in each case. Each case is before us on the plaintiff’s bill of exceptions containing nine exceptions, only one of which has been pressed, namely, the seventh, that a portion of the charge was…