Baker v. Maryland Casualty Co.

This is an action of assumpsit on a liability insurance policy which was tried to a jury in the superior court. At the conclusion of the evidence each party moved for a directed verdict. The trial justice granted the plaintiff’s motion and denied the defendant’s. Defendant excepted to.each ruling and has prosecuted its bill of exceptions to this court.

Those exceptions raise but a single issue, namely, whether the policy provided the plaintiff with coverage for an accident to a third person which occurred after she had completed or abandoned operations of cleaning a cesspool on the premises of…