Caute v. Rhode Island Co.

Superior Court of Rhode Island

Caute v. Rhode Island Co.

2 Super. Ct. (R.I.) 9

CourtSuperior Court of Rhode Island

DecidedOctober 30, 1918

DocketNo. 38921

StatusPublished

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Caute v. Rhode Island Co., 2 Super. Ct. (R.I.) 9 (R.I. Ct. App. 1918).

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BLODGET, J.

In above ease, after verdiet of a jury awarding damages to the plantiff in the sum of $1200 for the death of the minor child of plaintiff, motion for a new trial filed by the defendant was heard May 18, 1918.

In this case plaintiff claimed that on the afternoon of June 18, 1918, a crowd had collected at the corner of Eenmore and Warren avenues watching an attempt to capture a bull that was astray, and that among the crowd was his wife and little child; that the child broke away from his mother, got upon the tracks of the defendant company on Warren Avenue, and was killed by a car proceeding on this track in the direction of Oresent Park.

Discussion of Testimony.

The jury evidently believed the account given by witnesses for the plan-tiff upon the questions of fact on which liability of defendant was necessarily based.

There is testimony upon which a verdict for the plaintiff could be found by the jury.

Motion for new trial denied.

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