MERCIER v. SABER, INC.

No. 89-1307.

888 F.2d 1459 (1989)

Eve MERCIER, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. SABER, INC., et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided November 8, 1989.

As Amended November 15, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arlene Violet, with whom Pearlman, Vogel & Violet, Providence, R.I., were on brief, for plaintiff, appellant.

Robert G. Jeffrey, with whom Higgins, Cavanagh & Cooney, Providence, R.I., were on brief, for defendants, appellees.

Before BOWNES, ALDRICH and GIBSON, Circuit Judges.


BOWNES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents the question of whether under Rhode Island law an injured employee who is receiving workers' compensation benefits from her employer, a limited partnership, can bring a common law action against a corporate general partner of the limited partnership for the same injuries.

Plaintiff-appellant, Eve Mercier, while collecting workers' compensation benefits from her employer Historic Newport, a limited partnership, for...

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