Attorney-General Ex Rel. Adams v. McCaughey
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Information praying for a writ of quo warranto. The facts are stated in full in the opinion. Prayer denied.
1Opinion of the Court
. Tillinghast, J.
This is an information filed by the attorney-general upon the relation of John F. Adams and others, electors and tax-payers of the city of Pawtucket, praying for a writ of quo warranto against Bernard McCaughey, John E. Judson, and Walter H. Johnson, who, it alleges, on the seventh day of December, 1898, were appointed by the board of aldermen of said city, commissioners to lay out a highway under the provisions of chapter 71, Gen. Laws R. I. The ground of the information is that, under the provisions of Pub. Laws R. I. cap. 474, § 3, passed March 27, 1885, the resolution…
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