Powers ex rel. Foley v. Caswell

This is a petition in equity in the nature of quo warranto under general laws 1938, chapter 585. It was brought in the name of William E. Powers as attorney general of the state of Rhode Island at the relation of John B. Foley, Jr. to determine whether the relator Foley or the respondent William Foster Caswell is entitled to the offices of member of the town’s committee of the Jamestown and Newport Ferry Company, of the Jamestown Bridge Commission, and of the Narragansett Bay Bridge Authority, hereinafter called respectively the Ferry Company, the Bridge Commission and the Authority.

The cause…