Legal Opinion

Kurczy v. St. Joseph Veterans Ass'n, Inc.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island

Decided April 15, 2003No. 2000-387-AppealPublishedCited by 44 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

FLANDERS, Justice.

After a remand and a second Superior Court jury trial in this premises-liability case, we revisit on appeal the facts and law that we first encountered in Kurczy v. St. Joseph Veterans Association, Inc., 713 A.2d 766, 772 (R.I.1998) (Kurczy I). But this time, in contrast to the result in Kurczy I, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, Mary M. Kurczy, in her capacity as the mother and next friend of the injured victim, Lucas Landry (Lucas). Lucas was a ten-year-old boy in 1990 when he injured himself by plunging to the bottom of a darkened outdoor stairwell…

2Cases cited47 opinions

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  2. Allen v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
  3. Early v. PackerSupreme Court of the United States · 2002
  4. Lowenfield v. PhelpsSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
  5. Jenkins v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1965

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