Gould v. Maine Central Transportation Co.

These two cases, brought by husband and wife and growing out of an accident in which she was injured, come to us on like exceptions, the first three of which relate to the admissibility of evidence, while the fourth is taken to the direction of verdicts for the defendant. First we will consider the last exception; if that be sustained, it is decisive, for if without the evidence offered and rejected, the case should have been submitted to the jury, error of its exclusion need not be established by the exceptant.

Did the justice below err in his direction of verdicts for the defendant? In…