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· 3/6/1968

Nugent Ex Rel. Hurd v. City of East Providence

Citations

  • 238 A.2d 758
  • 103 R.I. 518
  • 1968 R.I. LEXIS 824

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “[t]he State has sovereign and absolute jurisdiction and control of the roads, streets and highways within its borders,” quoting Hackensack Water Co. v. Ruta, 3 N.J. 139, 146, 69 A.2d 321, 324 (1949)
  • \It is well settled that such [inadmissible] evidence is prejudicial only when it reasonably appears that the irrelevant evidence so influenced the judgment of the trial justice as to have caused him to rest his decision in whole or substantial part on that evidence.\

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Judges: Roberts, Paolino, Powers, Joslin, Kelleher

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