Putnam v. Bero Engineering & Construction Corp.

On May 3, 1950, the plaintiff, Glenn Phillips Putnam, filed his motion for judgment against the defendant, Bero Engineering and Construction Corporation, seeking the recovery of damages for personal injuries allegedly caused by the negligence of the defendant and obtained a verdict for $27,500. The trial court set the verdict aside and entered final judgment for the defendant on the ground that the verdict was contrary to the evidence and without evidence to support it and we awarded the plaintiff a writ of error.

At the time of the plaintiff’s injury the defendant, a foreign corporation, was…