Stevens v. Gulf Oil Corporation

This is an appeal from a Superior Court order denying and dismissing the defendant’s motion asking that a default judgment entered against it be set aside.

Gulf Oil Corporation owns a new modern gasoline station facility located in Providence near LaSalle Square. The front of the building consists of 22 plate glass panels framed in metal. Each panel measures ten feet in height and three feet in width. In early November 1969 plaintiff was injured when he walked through one of the glass panels. He was a passenger in an automobile that had stopped at the station for gas. He started this suit on…