Rainey v. Grand Trunk Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case for negligence. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the March Term, 1910, Franklin County, Taylor, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The defendant moved to set aside the verdict as “being excessive, and also not warranted by the facts in the case and the law applicable thereto. ” Motion denied, to which defendant excepted.
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Case for negligence. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the March Term, 1910, Franklin County, Taylor, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The defendant moved to set aside the verdict as “being excessive, and also not warranted by the facts in the case and the law applicable thereto. ” Motion denied, to which defendant excepted. Plaintiff’s evidence tended to show that after the accident he was allowed to lie on the ground for fifteen or twenty minutes, when defendant, by its servants, assumed control of him, took him into the baggage room,…
1Opinion of the CourtWatson, J.
The exceptions on which the case is presented' by the defendant’s brief are to the non-compliance with the fifth, sixth, and seventh requests to charge, and to the overruling of the motion to set aside the verdict, on the ground that it was not warranted by the facts in the case and the law-applicable thereto.
*524The accident occurred at St. Johns, in the Province of Quebec, hence the liability of the defendant depends upon the law of that province. By agreement of counsel principles of Quebec law were submitted to the jury without controversy as follows: (1) That by section 1053 of the Code,…
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