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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Thomas F. Healy vs. Cumberland County Power & Light Company. John Leonard, Jr. vs. Same.
    Cumberland County.
    Decided September 29, 1926.
    
      Jacob H. Berman, Edward J. Berman and Benjamin L. Berman, for plaintiff.
    
      Verrill, Hale, Booth & Ives, for defendant.
   Excep-

tions to directed verdict in favor of defendant. It is well settled that in considering exceptions to the direction of a verdict the only question is whether the jury would have been warranted by the evidence to find a verdict contrary to the one ordered. If a verdict to the contrary could not be sustained it is the duty of the presiding Justice to direct the verdict. If such a verdict would be sustainable the issue of fact should be submitted to the jury. Royal v. Bar Harbor & Union River Power Company, 114 Maine, 220.

A careful examination of the record fails to discover evidence of the negligence of the defendant, and upon the same record a verdict in favor of the plaintiff could not be sustained. Exceptions overruled.