Kelley v. Thibodeau
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions and motions by defendant. Two actions brought by wife and husband against defendant to recover damages for alleged negligence of defendant in operating his automobile, or permitting it to be operated in his presence and under his control by an inexperienced and unlicensed driver, resulting in an accident seriously injuring the wife, one of the plaintiffs.
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On exceptions and motions by defendant. Two actions brought by wife and husband against defendant to recover damages for alleged negligence of defendant in operating his automobile, or permitting it to be operated in his presence and under his control by an inexperienced and unlicensed driver, resulting in an accident seriously injuring the wife, one of the plaintiffs. The first action is to recover damages for injury to wife, and the second action by husband is to recover expenses incurred and loss of wife’s services. A verdict of 84,527.90 was returned for plaintiff in the first action, and…
1Opinion of the CourtCornish, C. J.
These two actions were brought against the defendant, one by Mrs. Kelley, the wife, for injuries sustained by her when struck and run over by the defendant’s automobile near the junction of Franklin and Bridge Streets in the town of Rumford on the afternoon of September 15, 1919, and the other by the husband for expenses incurred and loss of his wife’s services growing out of the same accident. In the former, the wife obtained a verdict for 84,527.90, and in the latter the husband obtained a verdict for 82,251.17.
The cases are before the Law Court on defendant’s exceptions, general motion and…
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