Fagan v. Rhode Island Company

The plaintiff in this action has recovered a verdict for $1,130 for the loss of services of her minor son, who was injured while a passenger upon one of the defendant’s electric cars upon the road between Providence and Riverside.

The defendant brings its petition for a new trial on the grounds that the verdict is against the evidence on the issue of the defendant’s negligence and in the award of excessive damages, and that the presiding justice erred in admitting ■certain evidence against the defendant’s objection.

The plaintiff’s son, a boy about fourteen years of age, was riding in a closed…