Plantations Industrial Supply v. Leonelli

This civil action, which seeks to enjoin the expenditure of public funds, was commenced in September, 1975. At that time the plaintiff, Plantations Industrial Supply of Rhode Island (Plantations), a Rhode Island nonbusiness corporation, owned real estate in the city of Warwick and paid taxes to that municipality. The case is before us on the plaintiff’s appeal from the grant by a Superior Court justice of the defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint because it failed to state a claim upon which relief could be granted.

During the pendency of the appeal, Plantations sold its Warwick property…