Vigue v. Noyes

OPINION

HOWARD, Chief Judge.

Appellant sued appellees for the minor’s personal injuries occasioned by being kicked by a horse named Whiskey. The jury returned a verdict of $160,000 against the appellees at which time the trial court invited a motion for judgment N.O.V. and granted it.

At the time of the accident appellee Victor Noyes, Jr. was fourteen years of age. His parents had purchased Whiskey for him and he had paid them back by working for his father. Whiskey was boarded at Horseshoe Acres, owned by the appellees Gibson. Sharon Rector is the mother of Mary Alice Vigue who was four and…