Case ID: ri_20/html/0793-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Bridget Crowley vs. Richard Burke et ux.
    
    PROVIDENCE
    MAY 21, 1894.
    A person from whom money has been stolen is not entitled to sue for the same ' until complaint for the crime has been made and process issued thereon.
    Dependant’s petition for a new trial.
    
      John M. Brennan, for plaintiff.
    
      George J. West, for defendants.
   Per Curiam.

According to the testimony of the plaintiff, the defendant, Mrs. Burke, robbed her of the $135, for which she sues. This being so, Pub. Stat. R. I. cap. 204, § 22, requires that in order to entitle her to sue for the money, she should have first made a complaint for the crime and had process issued on the complaint. This she did not do. The court, therefore, properly directed a verdict for the defendants.

The petition for a new trial is denied and dismissed, and the case remitted to the Common Pleas Division, with direction to enter judgment on the verdict.