Puccio v. Diamond Hill Ski Area, Inc.

This is a negligence action in which the plaintiff seeks damages for injuries he sustained in October 1966 as a result of a fall down a flight of stairs in premises owned by the defendant corporation. Nine years later, in February 1976, a Superior Court jury returned a verdict for the defendant. The trial justice denied the plaintiffs motion for a new trial, and the plaintiff is before us on an appeal in which he takes issue with three rulings made by the trial justice. Two of the rulings relate to evidentiary matters, while the third concerns the denial of the plaintiff s motion for a new…