Hawes v. Warren

PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.

This case was tried to the jury at this term, and a verdict in behalf of the plaintiffs was rendered against the defendants for $2,658.33. The declaration charges that the plaintiffs were owners of a building in Westbrook, and that the same was destroyed by fire by reason of the negligence of the defendants with reference to a certain electric motor, its wires, appliances, and connections, which the defendants had installed. The present matter for consideration is a motion of the defendants to set aside the verdict on general grounds, and also because the damages were…