Compo v. Dexter

This is an action of trespass on the case for negligence brought to recover damages alleged to have resulted from a motor vehicle collision. The matter was tried to a justice of the superior court sitting with a jury, -and a verdict was returned for the plaintiff in the amount of $22,000. The defendant’s motion for a new trial was subsequently denied, and he is now prosecuting his bill of exceptions in this court.

The defendant urges, first, that prejudicial error inhered in the denial of his motion for a directed verdict. It is elementary that a trial justice, in considering a defendant’s…