Provost v. Finlay

OPINION

A party’s failure to serve a municipality with timely notice of a claim arising out of a highway-related injury caused the Superior Court to dismiss this compliant. The plaintiff, Loretta A. Provost, appeals from a Superior Court order granting the dismissal motion filed by the defendant, Dennis Finlay, in his capacity as Treasurer of the Town of Smithfield (town). 1

Following a prebriefing conference, a single justice of this Court assigned this case to the show cause calendar and directed both parties to show cause why the issues raised by this appeal should not be summarily decided.…