MacDonald, B.N.F. v. Orton

This is an action of negligence growing out of an automobile accident which occurred in the village of Hardwick on November 25, 1924. The plaintiff had a verdict and judgment below, and the case is here on defendant’s exceptions.

The first exception briefed is to the refusal of the court to grant defendant’s motion for a directed verdict made at the close of all the evidence. The grounds of such motion are, in substance and in effect, that the evidence did not show negligence on the part of the defendant as alleged in the complaint, namely, that he was driving in a careless and negligent…