Powers v. Carvalho

This is an appeal from a civil action wherein the jury awarded the plaintiff damages for false imprisonment, slander, and assault and battery. The defendant alleges as error certain evidentiary rulings of the trial justice and his denial of the defendant’s motions for a directed verdict and a new trial.

These parties have visited our court before. In Powers v. Carvalho, 109 R.I. 120, 281 A.2d 298 (1971), we remanded the controversy to the Superior Court for a new trial because the trial justice had allowed evidence that the plaintiff had successfully passed a lie detector test. A brief…