Webbier v. Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau, Inc.

These are two actions of trespass wherein the plaintiff seeks damages for false arrest and assault and battery. These actions were instituted prior to the effective date of the superior court’s new rules of civil procedure. Thereafter they were consolidated and tried to a jury in the superior court which returned a verdict of $4,000 in each case. The trial justice denied the defendants’ motions for a new trial, but granted such a motion to the plaintiff on the issue of compensatory damages 1 unless the defend ants consented to an additur of $3,500 to each verdict. The case is before us on the…