Bishop v. Tripp
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Assumpsit. Heard by the court, jury trial being waived. The statutory provisions considered in the opinion are given in a note at its end.
1Opinion of the Court
Pee Cueiam.
This is an action to recover divers sums of money paid by the plaintiff, under protest, for certain sewer assessments which she claims to have been illegal. The action is tried to the court upon an agreed statement of facts, supplemented by oral testimony and a view.
The first claim is for the sum of $529.46, assessed for a sewer constructed in Blaekstone Street, so called. At the time the sewer was ordered to be constructed, the part of Blaekstone Street, so called, where it was mad©,' existed only by delineation on a plat. It had never been opened, or used as a public street.…
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