Pawtucket MacHinery & Supply Corp. v. Monroe

This is a bill in equity to enjoin the town of Barrington from selling the chattels and fixtures on land which it bought from Frank Tavares and wife in March, 1946. After a hearing in the superior court on bill, answer and proof, a decree was entered dismissing the bill. The cause is here upon complainant’s appeal from this decree.

The sole question before us concerns the meaning of a stipulation in the deed from the complainant to the Tavares, the town’s grantors. The following facts are undisputed. For well over a century the premises in question had been used for the manufacture of bricks.…