R & R Associates v. City of Providence Water Supply Board

OPINION

FLANDERS, Justice.

The fountainhead for deciding this case springs from the statutory and contractual origins of the Scituate Reservoir, a primary source of water for many Rhode Islanders. The Superior Court certified the plaintiffs, L & L Associates and its general partner, Robert LaFerriere, to represent a class of plaintiffs who constituted the “present-day successors in interest to the land and water rights that in 1922 were appurtenant to” nine separate mill sites that were owned by the Hope Company, B.B. & R. Knight, Inc., and Interlaken Mills (the mills). All of the mill sites…