Rabau v. Gaudreau

A jury in the Superior Court awarded Barbara Rabau $200 for injuries sustained when she was struck by a motorcycle owned by one of the two defendants and operated by the other, and it also awarded her mother, Ruth, $427 for consequential damages. Each plaintiff moved for an additur or alternatively for a new trial solely on the issue of damages, and when the trial justice denied their motions they appealed. ■

Joseph Marran, Jr., for plaintiffs. Keenan, Rice, Dolan & Reardon, Leonard A. Kiernan, Jr., for defendants.

For the plaintiffs to succeed in their appeal they must establish that the trial…