Franco v. Kaufman & Broad, Inc.

OPINION

MURRAY, Justice.

The plaintiff, Vito Scarpelli (Scarpelli), as executor of the estate of Joseph Franco (Franco),1 appeals from a Superior Court *25justice’s granting of the defendants’ motion for a directed verdict. The plaintiff claims that the trial justice erred in interpreting G.L.1956 (1985 Reenactment) § 9-19-27 as not allowing the admission of an out-of-state doctor’s affidavit. The plaintiff also objects to the trial justice’s alternative ruling that the affidavit is inadmissible as not sufficiently establishing a causal connection between the injury and the amputation of Franco’s…