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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Section 34-18-2

Citation
Section 34-18-2
Parent Document
Errico v. LaMountain, 713 A.2d 791 (1998)
Jurisdiction
Rhode Island (state)
Effective Date
1998-06-19

Full Text

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We agree with the trial justice that the evidence introduced at trial was sufficient to justify a finding that the wooden railing had deteriorated “well, well before the events of the Fall of 1989.” Testimony established that just after the accident the ends of the railing’s wooden spindles appeared to be rotten at the very point where they became detached during Errieo’s fall. Photographs introduced at trial further substantiated the railing’s visible deterioration. And the unob-jected-to evidence that defendants replaced the entire railing with new wood several *795