Rickey v. Boden

OPINION

BEVILACQUA, Chief Justice.

This is a civil action in which the plaintiffs, Lillian L. Rickey (Lillian) and Everett A. Rickey (Everett), appeal from the direction of verdicts for two of the defendants, Herbert Boden, Jr. (Boden), and Rho-de Island Hospital Trust Company (the trust company) on the plaintiffs’ sole allegation that the defendants negligently maintained a stairway.

The record reveals that on January 22, 1971, Lillian was working as an elevator operator in a building at 15 Westminster Street, Providence. During her coffee break that morning, at approximately 9:45 a. m.,…