Knuth v. Board of Sewer Commissioners

These four petitions were brought pursuant to the provisions of general laws 1956, §44-5-26 et seq., for relief from a sewer assessment alleged to have been illegally made against certain real estate of the petitioners located in the city, formerly the town, of East Providence. Following a hearing before a justice of the superior court sitting without a jury, he filed rescripts denying and dismissing the petitions. The cases are here on the exceptions of the petitioners to such decisions.

The parties have agreed in this court, as they did in the superior court, that the same issues are present…