TRUSTEES OF VT. WILD LAND v. TOWN OF PITTSFORD

No. 342-78.

407 A.2d 174 (1979)

TRUSTEES OF VERMONT WILD LAND FOUNDATION v. TOWN OF PITTSFORD, Town School District of Pittsford, and Village of Pittsford.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

September 17, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Williams & Williams, P. C., Poultney, for plaintiffs.

Theodore S. Mandeville, Jr., of Crowley, Banse & Kenlan, Rutland, for defendant.

Before BARNEY, C. J., and DALEY, LARROW, BILLINGS and HILL, JJ.


DALEY, Justice.

The plaintiffs brought this action for declaratory judgment against the defendant municipal corporations requesting that their land be declared exempt from property taxes under 32 V.S.A. § 3802(4) and that the defendants be restrained from levying such taxes against that land. The court held the plaintiffs' property exempt as a public use, and the defendants appeal.

The plaintiffs are trustees of the Vermont Wild Land Foundation, a trust...

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