STIDHAMS v. McPHERSON

No. 692-Appeal.

259 A.2d 114 (1969)

GREEN STIDHAMS v. SHARON McPHERSON.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

November 26, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan H. Pearlman, for plaintiff.

John F. McDonough, for defendant.


OPINION

PER CURIAM.

Almost seventy-five years ago this Court decided that a party by submitting to a decision against himself in the District Court was not thereby precluded from appealing that decision to the Common Pleas Division of this Court, where in appropriate circumstances he was entitled to a jury trial and in all events to a trial de novo. Lavelle v. Kimball, 18 R.I. 786, 31 A. 166 (1895). The creation of the Superior Court in 1905 and its succession...

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