CROCKETT v. STAPLES


89 A.2d 737 (1952)

CROCKETT v. STAPLES.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

June 11, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marguerite L. O'Roak, Frank M. Coffin, Lewiston, for plaintiff.

Desmond & Mahoney, Portland, for defendant.

Before MURCHIE, C. J., and THAXTER, FELLOWS, MERRILL, NULTY and WILLIAMSON, JJ.


WILLIAMSON, Justice.

Exceptions to the direction of a verdict for the defendant are sustained.

The only issue in this tort action arising from a collision between automobiles operated by the plaintiff and the defendant is whether, as a matter of law, the plaintiff must be charged with contributory negligence. In argument the defendant abandoned, and properly so, any claim that the evidence did not present a jury question on the issue of defendant's negligence...

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