Lombardi v. Dryden Corp.

In this negligence action the plaintiff seeks damages sustained as the result of her falling down a flight of stairs in a building owned by the defendant. A jury trial was begun in the Superior Court. At the conclusion of the plaintiff’s evidence, the trial justice granted the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict and this appeal ensued.

The grant of the directed verdict requires us, as it did the trial justice when he considered defendant’s motion, to view the evidence and the inferences of which it is reasonably susceptible in the light most favorable to plaintiff without giving any…