City of Providence v. Devine

This is a bill in equity in the nature of a bill of interpleader. It was brought by the city of Providence to have determined the respective claims and interests of the respondents in the sum of $5,765, held by the city. This sum represents the amount of damages which the city agreed to pay to the owners of the fee in two lots of land, formerly owned by the ancestors of these respondents, as tenants in common, and condemned by the city in 1930 for school purposes.

In the superior court, the case was fully heard before a justice in equity upon bill, answers, replications and proof. Thereupon a…