Blanchard v. Bass

This automobile accident case is before us on exceptions to the granting of defendant’s motion for a nonsuit at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence. The plaintiff seeks to recover damages caused, in the words of the bill of exceptions, “solely by the wanton misconduct of the Defendant.”

The rule governing our consideration of a case thus taken from the jury is well established. Our duty is “simply to determine whether, upon the evidence, under the rules of law, the jury could properly have found for the plaintiff.” Johnson v. New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R., 111 Me. 263, 265, 88 A. 988;…