Joyce v. Martin
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Trespass on the Case. On demurrer to the second count of the declaration.
1Opinion of the CourtDureee, C. J.
We think the second count of the plaintiff’s declaration sets forth a good cause of action, and that the demurrer to it must be overruled. Briefly stated, the case set forth is this. On February 15, 1881, the defendant Martin was, and for a long time had been, the owner of an estate in East Providence, bounding on Providence River, known as “ Silver Spring,” being a place of public resort and entertainment to which the public had long been in the habit of resorting, and of a wharf extending therefrom into said river, over which the people were in the habit of coming and going in great numbers…
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