Iafrate v. Ramsden

These two actions of trespass on the case were brought by the plaintiffs against the city of Cranston for injuries suffered by them by the collapse of a wall of a school building being erected on land owned by the city. The cases were heard together before a justice of the superior court on the defendant’s demurrer in each case to the plaintiff’s second amended declaration. The cases are before this court on the plaintiff’s exception in each case to the ruling of the trial justice sustaining the defendant’s demurrer.

Both cases raise the same basic issues and therefore we shall treat them as…