Freedman v. Gibsons Inc.

This is an action of the case for negligence to recover for personal injuries allegedly suffered by the plaintiff because of the presence of foreign substances in an ice-cream soda served to her by the defendant. The trial justice in the superior court granted the defendant’s motion for a directed.verdict and the case is before us on the plaintiff’s two exceptions to such ruling and to the court’s refusal to grant the plaintiff’s motion for a voluntary nonsuit.

The record and the transcript disclose that the case was pending for trial in the superior court about eighteen months. After many…