Spaulding v. HE Fletcher Company

This is an action of tort. The plaintiff alleging to be the assignee of certain reserved rights to a granite quarry in the Town of Plymouth, seeks conpensatory and punative damages from the defendant for granite removed by it from the quarry which the plaintiff claims to be hers by virtue of the claimed assignment. Trial was had in the Windsor County Court. At the close of plaintiff’s evidence, the court below granted defendant’s motion for a verdict to be directed in its favor. This appeal is not only from the verdict and judgment but from the ruling of the trial court excluding from…