Legal Opinion

Cosgrove v. Franklin

Supreme Court of Rhode Island

Decided July 11, 1913Published

Petition under Pub. Laws, cap. 499, as amended by cap. 649, to recover damages.

1Opinion of the CourtJohnson, C. J.

This is a petition brought by Catherine Cosgrove, widow of John F. Cosgrove, late of the city of Central Falls, in the county of Providence, and State of Rhode Island, deceased, Matthew A. Cosgrove, son of said John F. Cosgrove, and Sarah Eliza Howe, granddaughter of said John F. Cosgrove, by her next friend, as heirs-at-law of said John F. Cosgrove, against the respondents, as commissioners appointed for the erection of a bridge between the cities of Pawtucket and Central Falls, for damages to the land of the petitioners caused by the building of certain approaches to said bridge according…

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