Rhode Island Mobile Sportfishermen, Inc. v. Nope’s

The Rhode Island Supreme Court affirmed the trial court in holding that the easement permitted only grazing and not the additional equestrian uses and structures established and the easement did not require public access.

In Rhode Island, South Kingstown Land Trust's vulnerability assessment and planning efforts identify goals, natural resource assets and management priorities to support adaptation.

The court held that landowner did not meet the pleading standard for civil conspiracy, fraud and misrepresentation causes of action and that it knew or should have known that portions of the property consisted of wetlands and were thus unbuildable with or without the conservation easement.

A key question before the court was whether Island Farm's in-house accountant's use of the term 'bargain sale' in communications to the donor was enough to cause a prudent person to discover the outside accountant's tax error.