Legal Opinion
Ouellette v. Carde
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided July 9, 1992No. 90-367-AppealPublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MURRAY, Justice.
This civil action in negligence is before the court on the defendants’ appeal from a judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff. We affirm.
On March 18, 1986, defendant Orin Y. Carde attempted to change the muffler and tailpipe of his 1979 Mercury Cougar. 1 The defendant parked his car in the closed garage connected to his home and elevated the back of the car with a hydraulic jack. He placed two stanchion jacks underneath the rear axle and removed the hydraulic jack so that the car’s rear axle rested on the stanchion jacks. He blocked the front wheels of the car and…
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- Pachesky v. GetzSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1986
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