Young v. Potter

Actions in tort, brought by the wife for personal injuries and by the husband for medical expense, loss of services and consortium of his wife, resulting from an automobile accident on Temple Street in Portland June 17, 1933. The jury’s verdicts were for the defendant and now both cases are before us on motions and exceptions.

These actions tried together compelled the jury, it would seem, to pass upon the veracity of the litigants, for their versions of the occurrence were absolutely at variance and hopelessly irreconcilable.

The day before the accident the defendant’s mother had purchased a…