Meserve v. Libby
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Action on the case for injuries received by plaintiff through the alleged negligence on the part of the defendant in operating an automobile. Hearing in Superior Court, Cumberland county. Defendant pleaded general issue. Verdict for plaintiff. Defendant filed motion for new trial. Case stated in opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKing, J.
The plaintiff, a girl six years of age, while crossing Center street in Portland, at about noon of August 14, 1915, was struck and knocked down by an automobile driven by the defendant and thereby received severe bodily injuries, for which she seeks in this action to recover damages. The jury returned a verdict of $600 in her favor, and the case is before this court on defendanfs motion for a new trial.
The plaintiff had been, with other children, in the playground of the school yard nearly opposite her father’s house on Center street. Miss Marion Murphy was in attendance at the playground as…
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