Case ID: ri_65/html/0454-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Samuel M. White, d.b.a. Greater Finance Co. vs. Anthony Sirago et al.
    
    NOVEMBER 4, 1940.
    Present : Flynn, C. J., Moss, Capotosto, Baker and Condon, JJ.
   Per Curiam.

In accordance with leave granted in our .opinion filed July 24, 1940, (65 R. I. 344) counsel for the plaintiff appeared and set forth in argument his reasons why judgment should not be ordered entered for the defendant Sirago.

We have, given careful consideration to the reasons so advanced. If the interpretation which we placed in our opinion upon the decision of the trial justice is the correct one, then it appears to us that no cause has been shown why such judgment for the defendant Sirago should not be entered. However, plaintiff’s counsel has pointed out other possible meanings which conceivably might, in view of-the evidence in the case, be given to the language employed by the trial justice in his decision. Thus the exact basis of his decision becomes open to argument and is not entirely clear.

The present disposition of the case, as to the defendant Sirago, depends largely upon the meaning to be given to the language of the trial justice as determining the basis of his decision. If the plaintiff’s interpretation of such language is sound, then possibly a different termination of the case from that arrived at in our opinion might be reached.

In view of this situation, we are of the opinion that it is in the interest of justice that the case be remitted to the superior court for a new trial as to the defendant Sirago, and for the entry of judgment on the decision as to the defendant Viselli.

Charles M. Robinson, Edmund Wexler, for plaintiff.

Knauer & Fowler, Philip S. Knauer, Jr., Vincent P. Marcaccio, Jr., for defendants.