Graffam v. Saco Grange Patrons of Husbandry, No. 53
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On motion and exceptions by defendant. If plaintiff remits all of the verdict in excess of one thousand dollars, the motion is to be overruled; otherwise, a new trial is to be directed. This order disposes also of the exceptions.
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On motion and exceptions by defendant. If plaintiff remits all of the verdict in excess of one thousand dollars, the motion is to be overruled; otherwise, a new trial is to be directed. This order disposes also of the exceptions. This is an action on the case, brought under the provisions of Revised Statutes, Chap. 89, Secs. 9 and 10, to recover damages for the death of the son of the plaintiff, a boy of eleven years of age, occasioned by the negligence of the defendant in the conduct of the exercises upon the fair grounds, under the management and control of the defendant. Plea, the general…
1Opinion of the CourtPhilbrook, J.
This is an action brought by an administratrix under the provisions of R. S., Chap. 89, Secs. 9 and 10, to recover damages resulting from the death of a boy nearly eleven and a half years of age, his heirs being a mother, who is the administratrix, and three sisters. The plaintiff says that the defendant, while conducting an agricultural fair on hired grounds, allowed a person to erect and run a shooting gallery in which a twenty-two calibre repeating rifle was used; that a partridge got lodged in the working parts of the riñe, and while the person in charge of the gallery was trying to…
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