Cain v. Johnson

OPINION

WEISBERGER, Chief Justice.

This case comes before us on the plaintiffs’ appeal from a summary judgment *158entered in the Superior Court in favor of the defendants. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

The facts of this case are not in dispute. At approximately 2 a.m. on August 6,1991, Michael T. Cain (the decedent) and two friends went for a walk along a section of Newport’s Cliff Walk. While walking along an area of the Cliff Walk that winds through Salve Regina University’s (the university) campus, the decedent stepped from the paved walk onto a grassy area on the ocean side of the…