Ferreira v. McGrath Truck Leasing Corp.

These are three negligence actions in which the plaintiff administrator seeks to recover damages for injuries suffered by the decedent, his father, when he collided with a truck as he attempted to cross a public highway in the city of East Providence. The defendants are the lessor, lessee and operator of the truck respectively. The cases were consolidated for a trial and heard before a justice of the superior court sitting with a jury. They are before us on the plaintiff’s appeal from a judgment entered in the superior court wherein the trial justice granted the defendants’ motion for a…