Fondedile, S.A. v. C.E. Maguire, Inc.

OPINION

MURRAY, Justice.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff Fonde-dile, S.A., from a Superior Court judgment entered in favor of the defendants, the city of Providence and C.E. Maguire, Inc. This case concerns a major public works project undertaken by the city of Providence (city) to revitalize its port facilities. In the early 1970s the city hired C.E. Maguire, Inc. (Ma-guire), to design and supervise a plan to upgrade the municipal wharf at Fields Point in the Port of Providence. At the project’s inception berth 3 in the municipal wharf consisted of an unrepaired gravity seawall built at the…