Tantimonico v. Allendale Mutual Insurance Company
637 A.2d 1056 (1994)
Nature of the Case
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Facts
Tantimonico, Jr. (P), and McPhillips, Jr. (P), were riding motorcycles on a piece of undeveloped property owned by D. Ps collided head-on with each other. Both suffered severe injuries that required extensive hospitalization. Ps sued D for negligence and D moved for summary judgment. At the conclusion of the hearing the trial justice stated that he could find no legal duty that would support the actions against D and, that without a legal duty, no material facts were to be found because the question of law was dispositive of the entire matters. D’s motion was granted and Ps appealed. Ps argue that in prior case law the court abolished the common-law distinctions between the duties owed to licensees, invitees, and trespassers and substituted the tort test of reasonableness. Thus, D owed them a duty of care to protect them from dangerous conditions on its property.
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