Raposa v. Guay

This is a bill in equity to enjoin the respondent from continuing to trespass on the complainant’s land. The cause was heard in the superior court on bill, answer and proof, and thereafter a decree was entered granting the injunction but requiring the complainant to pay the respondent $1,250 for a partially constructed building which the trial justice found had been erected by respondent on complainant’s land “in good faith by reason of an innocent mistake.” From such decree the complainant has appealed to this court.

She contends that the trial justice erred in granting respondent affirmative…