Legal Opinion
Boccasile v. Cajun Music Limited
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided May 9, 1997No. 96-6-Appeal, 95-418-AppealPublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FLANDERS, Justice.
The deceased, Ralph Boccasile (Boccasile), was attending the 1989 Cajun Music Festival (the festival) in Escoheag, Rhode Island, when he experienced a severe allergic reaction to the seafood in some of the gumbo he had been sampling. The festival’s first-aid crew succored Boccasile, but unfortunately they were unable to prevent him from eventually succumbing to anaphylactic shock.
In this consolidated appeal, his widow, Jean M. Boccasile (plaintiff), 1 asks us to reverse the Superior Court’s entry of summary judgment in favor of two of the festival’s emergency…
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