Morgan v. Washington Trust Company

This is a negligence action brought, by a husband and wife for injuries received by the wife in a fall on stairs leading into a branch bank operated by the defendant. The case .was tried before' a justice of the superior court sitting with a jury. The jury .awarded' the wife the sum. of $9,000 and returned a verdict on the husband’s claim for consequential damages in the amount of $2,500. The trial-justice denied the defendant’s motion for a new trial. In its appeal, the defendant challenges the correctness of several of the trial justice’s evidentiary rulings and certain portions of his…