Case ID: super-ct-ri_2/html/0009-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BLODGET, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Manuel Caute vs. Rhode Island Company
    No. 38921
    October 30, 1918
    For plaintiff: Charles J. Alexander.
    For defendant: Clifford Whipple and Alonza R. Williams.
   RESCRIPT

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.