Case Name: City of Newport vs. Newport Water Corporation et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Jurisdiction: Rhode Island
Decision Date: 1937-01-29
Citations: 57 R.I. 287
Docket Number: 
Parties: City of Newport vs. Newport Water Corporation et al.
Judges: Present: Flynn, C. J., Moss, Capotosto, Baker, and Condon, JJ.
Reporter: Rhode Island Reports
Volume: 57
Pages: 287–287

Head Matter:
City of Newport vs. Newport Water Corporation et al.
JANUARY 29, 1937.
Present: Flynn, C. J., Moss, Capotosto, Baker, and Condon, JJ.
Jeremiah A. Sullivan, City Solicitor, Clark Burdick, Edward J. Corcoran, for City of Newport.
Marshall Swan, Charles E. Tilley, Eugene J. Phillips, Swan, Keeney & Smith, for Newport Water Corp.
Cornelius C. Moore, for Newport National Bank, Trustee.

Opinion:
Condon, J.
This is a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Superior Court for Newport county brought by the respondents to determine the validity of the findings and decrees of the trial justice of that court sitting in condemnation proceedings under General Laws, 1923, Chapter 179, which were instituted by the City of Newport pursuant to the authority conferred upon the representative council of said city by Public Laws, 1933, Chapter 2072, as amended by Public Laws, 1934, Chapter 2162.
The respondents, being in doubt as to their remedy to bring the disputed questions involved in these proceedings here for review, also brought a bill of exceptions and claimed an appeal as in equity in City of Newport v. Newport Water Corporation et al., Equity No. 1340. The questions raised in those proceedings and in the instant petition are the same, and we have considered and disposed of them in our opinion in City of Newport v. Newport Water Corporation et al., 57 R. I. 269.
For the reasons set forth therein, the prayer for relief is denied and the writ of certiorari heretofore issued is quashed.