Danos v. Manchester Coal & Ice Co.

The defendants’ claim that a new trial should be granted is based upon their exceptions to two rulings of the Trial Court excluding offered testimony.

1. During the cross-examination of Ovila R. Provost, the police inspector who investigated the accident immediately after it occurred, the following question was put to the witness: “Q. Did the general layout at the scene of the accident strike you as confirming the proposition that she was going fifteen to seventeen miles an hour and that he had just started and gone about a foot? A. Yes, sir.” To this testimony the plaintiffs objected upon the…