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Petrus v. Berlin Mills Co.

November 4, 1908 - Opinion

Unanimous

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November 4, 1908 Petrus v. Berlin Mills Co. Current page Opinion Supreme Court Reporter

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Nov. 4, 1908.

Petrus v. Berlin Mills Co.

Case, for personal injuries. Trial by jury. A nonsuit was ordered at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, and he excepted. Transferred from the December term, 1907, of the superior court by Ghamberlin, J.

William H. Paine, for the plaintiff.

Drew, Jordan, Shurtleff Morris and Rich Marble, for the-defendants.

Young, J.

There was evidence that the defendants either knew or ought to have known of the danger incident to the condition of their premises which caused the plaintiff’s injury, in season to have removed the danger or to have warned him of it, and that, he neither knew of the danger nor was in fault for not knowing-of it.,, Consequently, the evidence should have been submitted to-the jury.

Exception sustained.

All concurred.