PUBLIC SERV. CO. v. TOWN OF HAMPTON

No. 79-322.

120 N.H. 68 (1980)

PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE v. TOWN OF HAMPTON & a.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

January 31, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sulloway, Hollis & Soden, of Concord (Dorothy M. Bickford and Martin L. Gross orally), for the plaintiff.

Upton, Sanders & Upton, of Concord (Richard F. Upton orally), for the defendants.


PER CURIAM.

The issue we decide in this interlocutory transfer is whether the defendant towns may require the plaintiff to use underground transmission lines after the public utilities commission has issued to the plaintiff a certificate of site and facility authorizing above-ground transmission lines for the Seabrook Nuclear Electric Generating Station, in compliance with RSA ch. 162-F. We hold that the towns lack power to...

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