Supreme Court of Rhode Island June 1, 1876 (Pettis v. City of Providence)

Durfee, C. J.

These are petitions for jury trials upon claims for damages in the matter of the widening of Dyer Street, in the city of Providence. The proceeding for widening Dyer Street was had under the

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Act in relation to the laying out, enlarging, straightening, or otherwise altering streets in the city of Providence,” passed January, 1854,

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and the acts in amendment thereof.