Parkinson v. Concord Street Railway
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for personal injuries. Trial by jury and verdict for tbe ■defendants. Transferred from the October term, 1900, of the supreme court by Blodgett, C. J. The plaintiff was traveling with a horse and wagon in the highway in which the defendants’ electric road runs. While crossing the defendants’ track to reach a public watering-trough, he was .struck by the defendants’ car, thrown from his wagon, and injured.
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Case, for personal injuries. Trial by jury and verdict for tbe ■defendants. Transferred from the October term, 1900, of the supreme court by Blodgett, C. J. The plaintiff was traveling with a horse and wagon in the highway in which the defendants’ electric road runs. While crossing the defendants’ track to reach a public watering-trough, he was .struck by the defendants’ car, thrown from his wagon, and injured. The plaintiff claimed that the accident was caused by the carelessness of the motorman in not seasonably stopping the car upon discovering the plaintiff upon the track, while the…
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, J.
The written instruction given the jury in answer to their inquiry is, as a legal proposition, unexceptionable. To what was said no exception is, or can be successfully, taken. The objection claimed is that this instruction did not state the rules of law applicable to the evidence with sufficient fullness to preserve the plaintiff’s rights,— in short, that the instruction was not sufficiently specific.
The general rule is that where the instructions actually given are correct a verdict will not be set aside because they are not as specific as they might properly have been, when no request has…
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