Ross v. Russell

We are concerned here with two actions, one by a minor child of the age of eight years brought by her father as next friend to recover for personal injuries, the other brought by the father to recover for medical expenses. In each case at the close of the evidence the presiding justice on the defendant’s motion directed a verdict for the defendant. The cases are now before us on exceptions to these rulings.

The only question before us is whether, giving to each plaintiff the most favorable view of the facts and of every justifiable inference to be drawn therefrom, the jury might have been…