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BOCCASILE v. CAJUN MUSIC LTD.

Nos. 96-6-Appeal, 95-418-Appeal.

694 A.2d 686 (1997)

Jean M. BOCCASILE et al. v. CAJUN MUSIC LIMITED et al.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

May 9, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Gnys, Jr., Christopher Rawson, Providence, for Plaintiff.

David P. Whitman, Elizabeth Flynn Sullivan, Donald Migliori, Providence, Joseph Salvadore, North Providence, Mark Dolan, Providence, for Defendant.

Present: WEISBERGER, C.J., LEDERBERG, BOURCIER, and FLANDERS, JJ.

OPINION

FLANDERS, Justice.

The deceased, Ralph Boccasile (Boccasile), was attending the 1989 Cajun Music Festival (the festival) in Escoheag, Rhode Island, when he experienced a severe allergic reaction to the seafood in some of the gumbo he had been sampling. The festival's first-aid crew succored Boccasile, but unfortunately they were unable to prevent him from eventually succumbing to anaphylactic shock.

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