Rumford Property & Liability Insurance v. Carbone

OPINION

WEISBERGER, Justice.

This case comes before us on the defendants’ appeal from the trial justice’s granting of the plaintiff’s motion for a directed verdict. We affirm. The facts of the case insofar as they are pertinent to this appeal are as follows.

The defendants, George Carbone (Car-bone) and Abraham Nathanson (Nathan-son), were the owners of property located at 494 Woonasquatucket Avenue in North Providence. The property consisted of approximately four and one-half acres of land upon which was situated a building with about 100,000 square feet of floor space. Just before closing on…