LACONIA WATER COMPANY v. LACONIA

No. 4388.

99 N.H. 409 (1955)

LACONIA WATER COMPANY v. LACONIA.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

Decided March 11, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nighswander, Lord & Bownes (Mr. Nighswander orally), for the plaintiff.

A. Gerard O'Neil, city solicitor and John N. Nassikas, special counsel (Mr. Nassikas orally), for the defendant.


KENISON, C. J.

Revised Laws, chapter 56, section 4 provides that the two-thirds vote of a city council to acquire a municipal water works must be "confirmed by a majority of the qualified voters at a regular election or at a special meeting duly warned in either case . . . ." The issue in this case is whether the vote at the special meeting of June 22, 1954, at which a majority of those voting, but less than a majority of those qualified to vote, was a confirming...

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