ATWELL v. RHIS, INC.

No. 201, 2008.

974 A.2d 148 (2009)

Tina A. ATWELL and Ashley Atwell a minor by her next friend Tina A. Atwell, Plaintiff Below, Appellants, v. RHIS, INC. dba Reliable Home Inspection Service, a Delaware Corporation and Lititz Mutual Insurance Company, a Foreign Corporation, Defendants Below, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: May 22, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William D. Fletcher, Jr. (argued), Schmittinger & Rodriguez, P.A., Dover, DE; Mary F. Higgins, McGivney & Kluger, P.C., Wilmington, DE, for appellants.

Norman H. Brooks, Jr. (argued), Theodore J. Segletes, III, Marks, O'Neill, O'Brien & Courtney, P.C., Wilmington, DE, for appellee RHIS, Inc.

Stephen P. Casarino (argued) and Sarah C. Brannan, Casarino Christman Shalk Ransom & Doss, P.A., Wilmington, DE, for appellee Lititz Mutual Insurance Company.

Before STEELE, Chief Justice, BERGER and JACOBS, Justices.


STEELE, Chief Justice:

Tina Atwell filed suit in the Superior Court herself and on behalf of her daughter, Ashley Atwell, against Reliable Home Inspection Service, Lititz Mutual Insurance Company, and Richard Davis. Atwell and Davis settled before trial. The trial judge granted Lititz's motion for summary judgment and the trial proceeded against Reliable. The jury returned a unanimous verdict in favor of Reliable. Atwell now appeals the trial judge's grant of summary...

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