OXFORD COUNTY AGR. SOC. v. SCHOOL ADMIN. DIST. NO. 17


211 A.2d 893 (1965)

OXFORD COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY v. SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE DISTRICT NO. 17.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

July 21, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson, by Barnett I. Shur and C. Daniel Ward, Portland, for appellant.

Verrill, Dana, Walker, Philbrick & Whitehouse, by Roger A. Putnam, Portland, for appellee.

Before WILLIAMSON, C. J., and WEBBER, MARDEN and RUDMAN, JJ.


WEBBER, Justice.

On appeal. The defendant School Administrative District No. 17, a quasi-municipal corporation charged with the responsibility of providing public school education, seeks to take property of the plaintiff Oxford County Agricultural Society by eminent domain. The District requires the property for the location of a new high school. It has general statutory authority to take by eminent domain for its lawful purposes but it has never been given specific...

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