Gauld v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

This is an action of tort in two counts for the death and conscious suffering of the plaintiff’s intestate while he was engaged in repairing a roof on the defendant’s building. The case was tried to a jury, and at the close of the evidence the judge granted the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict on the second count, for conscious suffering, and submitted the case to the jury on the first count. There was a verdict for the plaintiff. The case is here on a consolidated bill of exceptions. The defendant’s exceptions arise from the denial of its motion for a directed verdict on the first…