· 12/18/2001
Martinelli v. Hopkins
Citations
- 787 A.2d 1158
- 2001 R.I. LEXIS 261
- 2001 WL 1657614
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- \[T]he causal connection between negligence and a plaintiff's injury must be established by competent evidence and may not be based on conjecture or speculation ....\ (quotation marks omitted)
- while declining to directly address the abolition of the doctrine, the court stated that \the doctrine verges on the brink of being a legal enigma because of its many exceptions\
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Judges: Lederberg, Bourcier, Flanders, Goldberg, Williams
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