KNOWLES v. PONTON

Ex. No. 10407.

190 A.2d 4 (1963)

L. Hazard KNOWLES v. Thomas PONTON et al.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

April 16, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pontarelli & Berberian, Aram K. Berberian, Providence, for plaintiff.

Edward M. McEntee, Providence, for defendants.


ROBERTS, Justice.

This action of trespass was brought to recover damages alleged to have resulted from the defendants' unauthorized excavation of a family burial plot. In the course of the pleadings each defendant filed a plea in abatement setting out therein the nonjoinder of necessary parties plaintiff. To these pleas the plaintiff demurred. The matter was heard by a justice of the superior court who overruled the demurrer and sustained the pleas in abatement, dismissing...

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