Doreck v. Roderiques

This is a civil action in which the plaintiff, individually and as the administrator of his wife’s estate, seeks to recover from the defendant, his sister-in-law, a sum of close to $24,000. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, and the defendant is before us on a single-issue appeal. She claims that the trial justice erred when he denied her motion to dismiss the plaintiff s complaint because of a fail ure to join an indispensable party. To put the issue in its proper perspective, we shall briefly review the evidence. During our narrative we shall, for the most part, refer to the…