Michaud v. Taylor

The defendant herein, following a jury verdict of $2,552 for the plaintiff, seeks new trial on a general motion containing the usual allegations. Several exceptions to rulings on evidence were taken during the trial below but they are not pressed here, nor is the allegation of the motion that the damages awarded were excessive. Decision must rest upon determination that the evidence did, or did not, justify jury findings (1) that the servant of the defendant was negligent, *126and (2) that no negligence of the plaintiff contributed in a causative way to produce the accident, as well as. that the…