Meil v. Syracuse Constructors, Inc.

The Trial Justice dismissed these negligence actions as to both defendants at the conclusion of all of the testimony thus deciding that the plaintiffs had failed to make out a cause of action against either defendant as a matter of law. *12It is therefore necessary to consider the facts which the jury might have found in favor of plaintiffs, giving plaintiffs not only the benefit of these facts but also of all reasonable inferences which could properly have been drawn therefrom. We shall relate only the facts as they were beneficial to plaintiffs.

On a dark, rainy night the plaintiffs were in an…