Markham v. Allstate Insurance Company

This is a petition for a writ of certiorari to review the ruling of a justice of the Superior Court denying the defendant’s motions to substitute the administratrix of a deceased defendant as a party defendant and granting the plaintiff’s motions to substitute a deceased defendant’s insurer as a party defendant.

The record indicates that these consolidated cases arose out of a motor vehicle accident which occurred on Interstate Route 95 in the city of Cranston on February 3, 1970. William C. Carpenter, a resident of the State of New Jersey and operator of a truck owned by defendant Cross…