Sawyer v. Ewen

The plaintiff has brought an action for damages in which he claims that, by reason of the defendant’s negligence, he sustained injuries when he tripped over a protruding piece of roofing paper while shoveling snow from the defendant’s porch roof. The jury, in the trial below, returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars. This amount the plaintiff considered to be grossly inadequate, and, accordingly, he moved that the verdict be set aside as to damages only and a new trial be had on this issue alone. The defendant, on her part, moved for judgment notwithstanding…