Downes v. United Electric Railways Co.

These two actions of trespass on the case for negligence by a father and his son were tried together to a jury in the superior court and after verdicts for the plaintiffs the cases were brought to this court on identical exceptions. The only exceptions pressed before us, all others being expressly waived, relate to the refusal of the trial justice to direct a verdict for defendant and to his denial of its motion for a new trial in the case of the son Arthur V. Downes, and in the case of the father Lester R. Downes, to the denial of such motion subject to a remittitur which has been duly…