Haley v. Town of Lincoln

OPINION

WEISBERGER, Justice.

This case comes before us on the plaintiffs’ appeal from orders of the Superior Court granting the defendants’ motions for judgment on the pleadings pursuant to Rule 12(c) of the Superior Court Rules of Civil Procedure. We reverse. The facts and travel of the case are as follows.

In the early evening of December 13, 1983, Joan Haley was driving her car on Jenks Hill Road in the town of Lincoln. She came upon two unlit sawhorses that had apparently been left in the highway by maintenance workers who had performed repairs on a nearby section of the road earlier that…