Vaill v. Town Council
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Exceptions to the Court of Common Pleas.
1Opinion of the CourtTillinghast, J.
The facts set out in the bill of exceptions are as follows, viz.: Abby E. Vaill, through whose land a highway was laid out by the town council of New Shoreham in 1892, being aggrieved by the action of said town council in the premises, desired to appeal therefrom to the Court of Common Pleas then next to be holden at Newport, at the May Term thereof, 1893. ' She filed an appeal bond for this purpose, which ran to the “town council of the town of New Shoreham,” and thereupon carried her case to said Court of Common Pleas, where, on motion of appellee, it was dismissed for want of a sufficient…
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