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HILL v. STATE

No. 77-139-Appeal.

398 A.2d 1130 (1979)

Pauline HILL, Administratrix v. STATE of Rhode Island v. Joan HOUCK.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

March 9, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abedon, Stanzler, Biener, Skolnik & Lipsey, Milton Stanzler, Richard A. Boren, Providence, for plaintiff.

Julius C. Michaelson, Atty. Gen., J. Peter Doherty, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Swan, Jenckes, Asquith & Davis, Harry W. Asquith, Conrad M. Cutcliffe, Providence, for Joan Houck.

OPINION

DORIS, Justice.

On August 2, 1971, 11-year-old Sherrie Hill drowned at the Lincoln Woods Park beach, which was owned and operated by the State of Rhode Island. Sherrie's mother, as administratrix, brought a wrongful death action against the state. At the conclusion of the plaintiff's case the trial justice granted the defendant's motion for a directed verdict because, in the court's opinion, the plaintiff had not proved a sufficient causal relationship...

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