The fence viewer or the adjoining owner who has advanced the necessary expense to remove and store the fence may recover all of the expense in an action of debt from the person or persons who caused or suffered the fence to be built.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 34-10-4
Expense of removal of barbed-wire fence
P.L. 1906, ch. 1364, § 3; G.L. 1909, ch. 152, § 4; G.L. 1923, ch. 182, § 4; G.L. 1938, ch. 645, § 4; G.L. 1956, § 34-10-4.
Official source: Rhode Island General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Rhode Island statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.