Cummings v. Town of Cambridge
Supreme Court of Vermont
Tort for Negligence. Plea,, the general issue. Trial by jury at the June Term, 1918, Lamoille County, Waterman, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion states the case. Where slight evidence is consistent with any one of several theories of what took place and does not point satisfactorily toward one rather than another, the case will not be submitted to the jury.
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Tort for Negligence. Plea,, the general issue. Trial by jury at the June Term, 1918, Lamoille County, Waterman, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion states the case. Where slight evidence is consistent with any one of several theories of what took place and does not point satisfactorily toward one rather than another, the case will not be submitted to the jury. Delaware & Hudson Co. v. Eetz, 233 Fed. 31; Mesit v. Connecticut Co., 82 Conn. 403, 74 Atl. 684; Fay v. Hartford <& Springfield St. By. Co., 81 Conn. 330, 81 Atl. 364; Morse V.…
1Opinion of the CourtMiles, J.
This is an action to recover damages for the death of the plaintiff’s intestate, alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence in the maintenance of a bridge which by law it was bound to keep in repair.
The bridge in question crossed a small stream running southerly at the point of accident, and the highway approaching the bridge from the south ran northerly until near the'bridge, when it curved easterly to meet the bridge and, crossing the same, extended northeasterly along the northerly side of premises occupied by one Frank Nichols. The residence of the intestate at the time of…
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- Duggan v. HeaphySupreme Court of Vermont · 1912
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