Town of Harrisville v. Clooney

Memorandum Opinion

This appeal involves a petition to quiet title to a roadway and a spring located in the town of Harrisville. The town itself claimed ownership of the spring by virtue of a railroad corporation deed as well as by adverse public use for a period exceeding twenty years. It claimed ownership of the roadway by virtue of a 1939 highway layout. In his eight-page report, the Master (Mayland H. Morse, Jr., Esq.) ruled on the eighty requests before him and recommended that title be quieted in the town. The Superior Court (Pappagianis, J.) approved the report, and the defendant…