Woodmansee v. State

OPINION

SHEA, Justice.

This matter comes before the Supreme Court on appeal by the defendant, the State of Rhode Island Water Resource Board (board), from a judgment entered in favor of the plaintiffs, Clifton and Virginia Wood-mansee (the Woodmansees), after a jury-waived trial. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.

On October 18, 1985, the Woodmansees filed a petition for assessment of damages in the Superior Court, requesting that a trial justice determine the fair-market value of land they owned that the board had condemned on March 12, 1985. Following a jury-waived trial the justice…