Metts v. BB REALTY COMPANY

This is an appeal from a judgment entered in the Superior Court granting the defendant’s motion for summary judgment under Super. R. Civ. P. 56.

In examining the record we find that the appeal which plaintiff is now prosecuting is from a written decision, rather than from a written order or judgment as required under Super. R. Civ. P. 73. Such a procedural defect would ordinarily be fatal because appeals lie only from a judgment. Further, this judgment must be set forth on a separate document. East Providence Credit Union v. Brown, 104 R. I. 92, 242 A.2d 428. To avoid the delay which would…