Duffy v. Milder

OPINION

Justice FLAHERTY, for the Court.

We are called upon in this case to determine the rights of neighbors at war over the keeping of horses. This story begins in 1954, when the Poncelet family became engaged in various equestrian activities at their family farm, located on a large tract of land in the Town of East Greenwich, designated as assessor’s plat 10F, lot Nos. 24 and 28. Those activities included riding, training, and breeding horses.

By 1997, however, perhaps consistent with the town’s gradual evolution from an agricultural to a suburban environment, the Poncelets were disposed to…