Casador v. First National Stores, Inc.

OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

This is a Superior Court negligence action in which the trial justice, after receiving a jury verdict of approximately $20,000 in favor of the plaintiff, 1 granted the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict. Subsequently, the trial justice granted the defendant’s motion for a conditional new trial and rejected the plaintiff’s motion for either an additur or a new trial limited to the issue of damages.

On May 10, 1977, one day after a freak May snowstorm had visited Rhode Island, First National Stores’ Pitman Street, Providence, supermarket was in operation as usual.…