TOWN OF EPPING v. ST. PAUL FIRE & MARINE INS. CO.

No. 81-072

122 N.H. 248 (1982)

TOWN OF EPPING & a. v. ST. PAUL FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE CO. & a.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire

March 19, 1982


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kearns & Colliander, of Exeter (Peter F. Kearns and Alice S. Love on the brief, and Mr. Kearns orally), for the plaintiff.

Barto & Gfroerer, of Concord (John W. Barto on the brief and orally), for intervenor Patrick Jackson.

Orr & Reno P.A., of Concord (Ronald L. Snow on the brief and orally), for intervenors Roger C. Vogler, Dorothy K. Hall, Harold K. Lapierre, Richard F. Sanborn and William A. Callaway.

Sanders & McDermott P.A., of Hampton (Wilfred L. Sanders, Jr., on the brief and orally), for Wilfred L. Cloutier, as amicus curiae.

Aeschliman & Tober, of Portsmouth (Nicholas R. Aeschliman on the brief and orally), for the defendant Maine Bonding & Casualty Co.

Wadleigh, Starr, Peters, Dunn & Kohls, of Manchester (Eugene M. Van Loan, III, on the brief and orally), for the defendants St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company and Maine Bonding & Casualty Co.


BROCK, J.

This case arises out of a petition for declaratory judgment brought under RSA 491:22 by the Town of Epping against its insurers, St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company (St. Paul) and Maine Bonding and Casualty Company (Maine Bonding). The town seeks a ruling on the extent of its insurance coverage for civil rights violations. (Title 42 U.S.C. § 1983.)

The principal issues are (1) whether this court's holding in Town of Goshen v. Grange...

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