Carbone v. Ward
Annotate this CasePlaintiff sent a notice of claim to Defendants, a town and its finance director, for injuries she sustained on the town's sidewalk. Defendants filed a motion for summary judgment, arguing that the complaint should be dismissed because the notice of the place of injury was insufficient as a matter of law because Plaintiff misidentified the location where her injury occurred and her descriptions of the location were inconsistent. The trial justice granted Defendants' motion for summary judgment. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the relevant statute clearly and unambiguously requires that the notice of claim must be specific, and therefore, the notice in this case was insufficient.
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