Walker v. Boston & Maine Railroad
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for personal injuries. Trial by jury and verdict for tlie plaintiff. Transferred from the April term, 1901, of the superior court by Young, J. The plaintiff claimed that she was injured by the sudden starting of the train on which she was a passenger, as she was leaving a car. Her evidence tended to prove that she and her sister attempted to leave the car within a reasonable time after the train stopped.
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Case, for personal injuries. Trial by jury and verdict for tlie plaintiff. Transferred from the April term, 1901, of the superior court by Young, J. The plaintiff claimed that she was injured by the sudden starting of the train on which she was a passenger, as she was leaving a car. Her evidence tended to prove that she and her sister attempted to leave the car within a reasonable time after the train stopped. On cross-examination the sister testified that as she stepped from the car she heard some one say: “ You started without orders; you’ll hear from tins.” This remark was not responsive…
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, J.
The requested instruction was, so far as applicable to the evidence, covered by the instructions given. Upon the question of damages for future physical and mental pain, the jury were limited by the instructions given to such suffering as was shown to be the direct, natural, and probable result of the defendants’ fault. When the legal principle governing a case is fully stated in general terms, it is not error of law for the court to refuse instructions upon its application to particular evidence. The substance of the requested charge having been given, it is no ground of exception that it…
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