Gary Lemont v. Estate of Mary Della Ventura

Citations

• 157 A.3d 31
• 2017 WL 1230145
• 2017 R.I. LEXIS 41

Syllabus

The plaintiff, Gary Lemont, appealed from a Superior Court judgment in favor of the defendant, the Estate of Mary Della Ventura. The plaintiff filed a negligence suit after falling and sustaining injuries while on the defendant's property and, following a four-day trial, a jury returned a verdict finding the defendant to be 65 percent negligent. The trial justice, however, subsequently granted the defendant's motion for judgment as a matter of law and motion for a new trial on the grounds that the elements of the plaintiff's negligence claim had not been established by the evidence adduced at trial. On appeal, the Supreme Court agreed and affirmed the Superior Court order granting the defendant's motion for judgment as a matter of law.