CENTRAL VERMONT, ETC. v. TOWN OF SPRINGFIELD

No. 142-76.

379 A.2d 677 (1977)

CENTRAL VERMONT PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATION v. TOWN OF SPRINGFIELD, Michael J. Knoras, Charles E. Magwire, Jr., Richard A. Moore, George W. Lamb, Chester P. Scott, Jr., Peter MacGillivray and R. W. Beck and Associates.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

September 12, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul, Frank & Collins, Burlington, for plaintiff.

John Parker, Springfield, for Town of Springfield and Selectmen, Leslie C. Pratt of Paterson, Gibson, Noble & Brownell, Montpelier, for R. W. Beck & Associates, defendants.

Before BARNEY, C. J., DALEY, LARROW and HILL, JJ., and SMITH, J. (Ret.), Specially Assigned.


HILL, Justice.

This appeal arises from a taxpayer's suit brought in Windsor Superior Court by the plaintiff Central Vermont Public Service Corporation, a Vermont public service corporation owning and operating electric distribution facilities in the Town of Springfield. In its complaint, the plaintiff requested that the court declare invalid two contracts, allegedly entered into on July 30, 1974, and April 7, 1975, between the Town of Springfield and a firm of consulting...

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