Miller v. Boston & Maine Corp.

The defendant Boston and Maine Corporation (B & M) appeals from a judgment entered on jury verdicts that were rendered for the plaintiffs in the Superior Court on February 1,1978. B & M claims that the trial judge erred (1) in not directing a verdict in its favor, (2) in not giving any of the jury instructions that it requested, and (3) in admitting certain evidence. We find no error.

On the basis of the evidence viewed most favorably to the plaintiffs it appears that between 6:00 and 7:00 p.m. on May 8, 1973, the minor plaintiff, then twelve years old, was struck by a self-propelled passenger…