Vincent v. Public Service Co.

The plaintiffs’ building burned shortly after the defendant, Public Service Company of New Hampshire, reconnected electrical service to it. At a jury trial for damages, the Superior Court (.Dickson, J.) denied the plaintiffs’ motion to qualify a professor of engineering as an expert witness and granted the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict. The plaintiffs appeal both of these rulings. We affirm.

On July 9, 1982, the plaintiffs’ new tenant, Hugh Grissom, requested the defendant to restore electrical service to the plaintiffs’ apartment that day. The defendant replied that it would try…