Mulcahey v. New England Newspapers, Inc.

OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

On Sunday, October 8, 1978, at approximately 10:30 a.m., Helen F. Mulcahey drove her husband, Edward F. Mulcahey, Jr., (Mulcahey) to his place of employment in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. There he picked up one of his employer’s automobiles and drove to Schaeffer Stadium in nearby Foxboro, Massachusetts. Mulca-hey’s employer, New England Newspapers, Inc., was the publisher of a daily newspaper circulated in the Blackstone Valley area of this state and at that time called the Pawtucket Times (Times). For over a quarter of a century, Mulcahey was known to thousands of the…