Case ID: vt_108/html/0457-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MoultoN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John Shea v. Gerard Pilette.
    May Term, 1936
    Present: Powkrs, C. J., Slack, Moulton, Thompson and Sherburne, JJ.
    Opinion filed January 7, 1937.
    
      Finn & Monti for the plaintiff.
    
      Theriault & Hunt for the defendant.
   MoultoN, J.

The plaintiff was a participant in the coasting accident described in Shea, by next friend, v. Pilette, supra. The two actions were tried together below, and argued together here. The same motions for reargument, amendment, and remand were also made. The facts and the legal principles involved being the same in each cause, the result is also the same.

Judgment reversed pro forma and cause remanded with leave to the plaintiff to apply for an amendment of the declaration. Such application to he made within ten days after the opening of the March Term, 1937, of Washington county court, and, if granted, a new trial may he had upon the issue of the last clear chance as a ground of liability. If application is not so made, judgment to he affirmed.