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- Title: Jennie C. Leonard & A. v. Manchester
- Author : Supreme Court of New Hampshire
- Release Date : January 03, 1950
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 61 KB
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The defendant's motions for a nonsuit and a directed verdict were properly denied and its exceptions thereto are overruled. The question raised by these exceptions is ""whether on the evidence any verdict could be found for the plaintiff."" Chabot v. Company, 79 N.H. 230, 231. In passing upon these motions ""the Court was obliged to consider the evidence for the plaintiff as true and to construe all the evidence most favorably to the plaintiff."" Shimkus v. Caesar, 95 N.H. 286, 287. There was expert testimony on behalf of the plaintiff to the effect that this bridge was not suitably constructed for walking traffic, the defect therein being the running of the planking in a lengthwise direction which directly induces slipping when the surface becomes wet. On a level surface a wooden plank is 74% more resistent to slipping across the grain than it is lengthwise of the grain (coefficient of friction). A 7.9% sloping of the surface would greatly increase the liability to slip aside from the above coefficient of friction. And this tendency would further be greatly increased if the planks were wet with rain, snow or ice.
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