Legal Opinion
Providence & Worcester Railroad v. Pine
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided April 23, 1999No. 97-107-AppealPublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BOURCIER, Justice.
In this appeal we review a summary judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff on its petition to quiet title to some 32.9 acres of filled tide-flowed land within an existing harbor line in the Providence River, south of the Wilkesbarre Pier in the city of East Providence. 1
The plaintiff is the Providence and Worcester Railroad Co. (P & W). 2 The defendants are the State of Rhode Island by its Attorney General and the Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC or collectively the defendants). The final judgment entered in the Superior Court declared P & W to have fee…
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