Jensen v. Kyer
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions by plaintiff. Action on the case to recover damages for personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff and caused by the alleged negligence of the defendant. Plea, the general issue. After the completion of the plaintiff’s evidence at the trial, and upon the defendant’s motion, the presiding Justice ordered a nonsuit, and thereupon the plaintiff excepted. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.
Exceptions to the ruling of the presiding justice ordering a nonsuit at the close of the evidence for the pláintiff.
The plaintiff was employed by the defendant to drive a sprinkling cart. He was totally blind in one eye; and the sight of the other was “very poor,” so that he could not see to read, without using a glass. This the defendant knew. Plaintiff had operated a sprinkler the month before, but was never upon the defendant’s sprinkler until the day of the injury. He had driven through the big doors of other barns with different loads, but had never been in the defendant’s barn but once…
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