Hall v. Knudsen

OPINION

MURRAY, Justice.

This case comes to us on appeal from a grant of the third-party defendant’s motion to dismiss by the Superior Court justice in this wrongful-death claim brought by the third-party plaintiff and widow of Frederick H. Knudsen, Ann M. Knudsen, on behalf of herself and her son David, as inter-venors. We affirm the decision of the trial justice.

Frederick Knudsen and his wife, Ann Knudsen, were involved in a motor-vehicle collision with Janet Hall. The Knudsens filed suit against Hall, claiming an orthopedic injury and an exacerbation of his multiple sclerosis. In June 1981…