Husband v. Dubose

The plaintiff seeks to recover damages based upon the defendant’s alleged negligence in connection with an assault and battery by means of a deadly weapon committed upon the plaintiff, a guest in the defendant’s home, by another guest. At the conclusion of the plaintiff’s evidence before a jury in the Superior Court, a judge of that court allowed the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict. We affirm the judgment for the defendant.

The evidence in the plaintiff’s case may be summarized as follows. Late in the afternoon of May 25, 1985, the plaintiff, age forty-five and the mother of four,…