Malatt v. UNITED TRANSIT COMPANY

These are two actions of case for negligence brought by a woman passenger to- recover damages fo-r personal injuries, allegedly resulting from the negligent operation of the defendant’s bus, and by her husband per quod. The cases were consolidated for trial to a superior court justice sitting with a jury and resulted in verdicts of $15,000 for the wife and $2,000 for the husband. They are before us on the defendant’s bills of executions to the denial of its motions that the cases be passed and for new trials.

We shall consider the cases as though only that of Rose Malatt were before us, but…