Legal Opinion

Southern New England Railway Co. for Condemnation of Certain Lands

Supreme Court of Rhode Island

Decided July 7, 1916Published

Petition to intervene in condemnation proceedings.

1Opinion of the CourtSweetland, J.

This is the petition of the Eureka Land Company to be permitted to intervene in the claim of Joseph B. Cook et al., for damages for the condemnation of certain land by the Southern New England Railway Company and to prosecute said claim.

It appears that said Joseph B. Cook et al., are devisees under the will of Joseph B. Cook, Sr., late of Cumberland, deceased; that by the terms of said will the testator devised to said Joseph B. Cook et al., among other lands, a certain tract of land in Cumberland of which the testator died seized and possessed. The testator died on February 27, 1910. His…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Matter of City of RochesterNew York Court of Appeals · 1892
  2. Bates v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
  3. Patterson v. . City of BinghamtonNew York Court of Appeals · 1897
  4. Miller v. Board of Mississippi Levee CommissionersMississippi Supreme Court · 1900

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