Legal Opinion
Rodrigues v. Miriam Hospital
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided April 20, 1993No. 91-380-AppealPublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FAY, Chief Justice.
This case comes before us on appeal by the plaintiff, Karen Rodrigues, from a judgment of the Superior Court granting the motion of the defendant, the Miriam Hospital (hospital), for a directed verdict and subsequent motion for a new trial. For the reasons stated herein, we affirm the judgment of the trial justice regarding the motion for a directed verdict. Because we uphold the directed verdict, we need not address the propriety of the conditional motion for a new trial.
The incident underlying this litigation occurred on October 12, 1984. Before commencing our…
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