Durdle v. Baron
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
1Opinion of the CourtHonan, J.
These are exceptions to the refusal of a request to rule that the evidence would not warrant a verdict in excess of $2,000, the minimum damages under the death statute then in effect, and to the denial of a motion to direct a verdict for the defendants in an action to recover damages for the death and conscious suffering of the plaintiff’s intestate which were alleged to have resulted from an accident which happened on April 16, 1947.
There was evidence that the defendants’ employee was *461pushing a four wheel truck, which was about thirty inches wide and six feet long and had “iron bars all…
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