Kidney v. Aroostook Valley Railroad

This is an action on the case by the administrator of the estate of Hanford Kidney. Plaintiff’s intestate was instantly killed in a collision between an automobile in which he was riding, and defendant’s train, at Parsons Crossing, so-called, in the town of Presque Isle, on the 30th of September, 1918.

At the conclusion of the evidence the defendant’s counsel moved for a directed verdict, which was ordered by the presiding Justice, and the case is before the court on plaintiff’s exceptions to such order. We think the exceptions must be overruled.

Counsel for the plaintiff in opposing the…