Legal Opinion
Duquette v. Godbout
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided March 2, 1984No. 81-486-AppealPublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MURRAY, Justice.
This is an appeal from a reinstated judgment 1 of the Superior Court resulting in a nonjury verdict for the defendants. See Duquette v. Godbout, R.I., 416 A.2d 669 (1980). The plaintiff alleged that the defendants trespassed in his Warwick apartment. The defendants, on remand, were allowed to amend their answer to include the affirmative defense of justification. At the second trial the defendants prevailed under this theory.
On or about June 15, 1975, defendants, two Warwick policemen and their sergeant, responded to a report that there was a woman screaming in a…
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