Robichaud v. Napoleon St. Cyr

This is an action for alleged negligence brought by the plaintiff Elmira Robichaud a passenger in a car driven by the defendant Napoleon St. Cyr. The case was heard in the Superior Court for Kennebec County and verdict was for the plaintiff in the sum of $14,250. It comes to the Law Court on defendant’s exceptions to the refusal to direct a verdict, motion for new trial, and defendant’s exceptions to allowance by the presiding justice of plaintiff’s motion to increase the ad damnum of the writ.

On November 9, 1952, the plaintiff was riding with the defendant in an automobile on a State highway…